Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 16:06:02 EST


> which are marked
> supervisor-only (is this right?), and definitely don't contain user
> code.

x86 its a fair description. However someone has taken the same theory,
including handling the exceptions and the x86 segment tricks needed to make
it kind of fly. Its not a perfect cure but it works. Search for Solar Designer
and non executable stack.

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