On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 13:50 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
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> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >>As I understand, PT_GNU_STACK uses a single marking to control whether a
> >>task gets an executable stack and whether ASLR is applied to the
> >>executable.
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> > you understand wrongly.
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> > PT_GNU_STACK just sets the exec permission for the stack (and the heap
> > now mirrors the stack). Nothing more nothing less.
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> So then this would be slightly more useful than I had previously
> thought, bringing control over the randomization as well?
actually Linus was really against adding non-related things to this
flag. And I think he is right...
Now.. do you have any examples of when you want a binary marked for no-
randomisation ?? (eg something the setarch flag won't fix/won't be good
enough for)
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