Re: How to make stack executable on demand?

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 01:46:51PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
 > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:02:58PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
 > > >  But it will either fail if
 > > > kernel is set with non-executable stack,
 > > 
 > > eh no. mprotect with prot_exec is still supposed to work. The stacks
 > > still have MAY_EXEC attribute, just not the actual EXEC attribute
 > 
 > Ok. It looks like a bug in Red Hat EL 3 kernel. In fs/exec.c, there

That version of exec-shield is quite dated. For the latest version,
look on http://people.redhat.com/mingo, or the Fedora kernels.

I'm pretty sure that Exec-shield isn't even enabled in the EL kernels
at this time, so it's quite out of date in respect to the others.

		Dave

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