Re: Unexecutable stack

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Mon, 27 Dec 1999 20:37:59 +0300 (MSK)


In <38673F5C.1010C79A@katren.ru> Mike Karmyshev (mike@katren.ru) wrote:
> Hello.
> I've recently played a bit with Solar Designer's patch and it looks that
> it doesn't have any
> significant overhead. Shoudn't it be in the kernel by default(at
> least,SECURE_STACK)?

Last time when this question was raised was more then year ago (if I recall
correctly) and Linus said that his feeling about unexecutable stack is that
it does not make exploits impossible but insted give you false sense of safety.
So answer is "no". You can add such patch by hands if you wish...

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