On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
I know exec-shield only as one[1] nice "feature" to stop some Stack overflows... [1] http://people.redhat.com/mingo/exec-shield/exec-shield-nx-2.6.19.patch
This patch contains much more than only emulating NX bit on those i386 that don't honor it (which is what I guess you are actually referring to). The NX emulation is not going upstream, but certain parts of this large patch (such as address space randomization for position-independent code, heap base-address randomization) have already been merged upstream and will be present in 2.6.25. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org