On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 18:13 -0500, Rithin Shetty wrote: > Hi, > I have a question on the user mode stack. Why is the user mode stack > executable ? it's not nowadays if your hw supports it, or if you use PaX or Exec- Shield > I know one place where this is required: for trapping back to the kernel > after handling > a signal. Is this feature of the stack exploited anywhere else ? that is actually not used anymore nowadays. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
