Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
Brian Gerst wrote:
Jonathan M. McCune wrote:
Hello,
Why send the kernel back to the 2.0 days? There is no valid reason
for doing this with they way x86 segmentation works, which is why it
was done away with in 2.1.
But with segmentation you can set code to be read-only, disallow
execution from stack, separate modules so that they will not affect
kernel and more...
The main problem with segmentation is that it is x86 specific...
Too much pain for for not enough gain. Segments are not fine-grained
enough to work well. Look at the PaX and execshield hacks for
userspace. You are far better off working at the page-table level (RO
and NX pages) which has the advantage of being portable.
--
Brian Gerst
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