Re: exec-shield integration into 2.6

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 10:54 +0200, Michael Meyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have read somewhere that there are some portions 
> of the exec-shield patches incoporated into the
> kernel.
> To what extend? 

The 32 bit NX support and parts of the randomisation are incorporated
already. The segment limit hack will never be incorporated (but that's
ok; NX is the real solution and more and more systems out there support
NX). The userspace parts of Exec-Shield are in the respective
gcc/glibc/binutils upstream codebases already.

> There are no exec-shield patches
> published for 2.6.13.x yet. Is this because the
> complete
> exec-shield patches have already been incorporated?

no more because you didn't look deep enough; they exist.
The most current patch is always in the rawhide kernel rpm; once in a
while that gets put into a "released" patch, but the rawhide one is
updated daily or just about.


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