From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261245AbVBFRLh (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 12:11:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261223AbVBFRKG (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 12:10:06 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:32643 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261233AbVBFRI5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 12:08:57 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 09:08:47 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andi Kleen cc: Ingo Molnar , Christoph Hellwig , Arjan van de Ven , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Remove PT_GNU_STACK support before 2.6.11 In-Reply-To: <20050206142936.GC30476@wotan.suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20050206120244.GA28061@elte.hu> <20050206124523.GA762@elte.hu> <20050206125002.GF30109@wotan.suse.de> <1107694800.22680.90.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050206130152.GH30109@wotan.suse.de> <20050206130650.GA32015@infradead.org> <20050206131130.GJ30109@wotan.suse.de> <20050206133239.GA4483@elte.hu> <20050206134640.GB30476@wotan.suse.de> <20050206140802.GA6323@elte.hu> <20050206142936.GC30476@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Force READ_IMPLIES_EXEC for all 32bit processes to fix > the 32bit source compatibility. Andi, stop this. We're _not_ going to say "32-bit executables don't need PROT_EXEC. The executables would need to be marked broken per-executable, not some kind of "we don't do this globally" setting. Linus