PT_GNU_STACK is fail open design, at least warn people that something isn't right. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/exec.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -762,6 +762,13 @@ int setup_arg_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, goto out_unlock; BUG_ON(prev != vma); +#ifdef CONFIG_MMU + if (vm_flags & VM_EXEC) { + pr_warn_once("process '%s'/%u started with executable stack\n", + current->comm, current->pid); + } +#endif + /* Move stack pages down in memory. */ if (stack_shift) { ret = shift_arg_pages(vma, stack_shift);