Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: make mapped executable pages the firstclass citizen

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 19:44 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> 
> > They always use mmap(PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC) for anycase.
> > Please google it. you can find various example.
>  
> How widely is PROT_EXEC abused? Would you share some of your google results?

That's a security bug right there and should be fixed regardless of our
heuristics.

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