On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:43:47AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > The "x86: brk away from exec rand area" patch represents a fix to a real > > problem, though, so at the very least, please review that one. It's a > > corner case only for PIE, but it does happen. There might be a more > > elegant solution, but my patch seems to do the job. > > Ok. I think this should be reviewed in the normal upstream way, with x86 > maintainers CC'd, not just by us. agreed. > I actually don't care about the details of the knobs at all. I just think > that one knob called "exec-shield" is indefensibly random and unhelpful. > You need to work this out with Ingo and the other x86 maintainers. Other > Fedora kernel folks might have some input based on concrete concerns from > the past. Personally, I've never had a use for any of these knobs. The only time I recall them ever being useful was when execshield was in development, and we'd get users to disable certain features to try and determine which was failing. These days, I bet no-one ever touches the knobs. Dave _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
