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Re: Anyone protecting the stack?
Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>
> : I posted this to freebsd-hackers and everyone seemed to agree it was
> : extremely interesting and that it had to be done, but AFAICT no one is
> : doing the tough work. JIC anyone here is interested I repost the link to
> : NetBSD's commit log:
> :
> : http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2003/08/24/0027.html
> :
>
> Hmm, is this just the pmap mappings that are made non executable
> if supported by hardware? Well, aside from the pmap parts, I am
> not sure we really want this...
>
> ... I am understanding right and per the research I have done
> previously on non-exec stacks, it seems JIT compilers and the
> new Perl interpreter do not support this, although, I maybe a
> little outdated on this information.
>
> If it can be done without harming any functionality, it will be
> great!
The obvious way to make this optional is to set a flag in the elf files.
Thios will also avoid loading a non-unexecutable-stack-safe shlib into
a process that won't have a executable stack.
>
> Regards,
>
--
Sander
+++ Out of cheese error +++
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