Commit 7682968b authored Mar 25, 2006 by Andi Kleen Committed by Linus Torvalds Mar 25, 2006

[PATCH] x86_64: Change default setting for noexec32 to match i386 kernel



This means i386 processes compiled with a recent compiler will get non
executable heap by default now.  This is the same default as a 32bit PAE
kernel would use on a NX enabled CPU.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent df92004c

arch/x86_64/kernel/setup64.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ int __init nonx_setup(char *str)
		}
		__setup("noexec=", nonx_setup); /* parsed early actually */

		int force_personality32 = READ_IMPLIES_EXEC;
		int force_personality32 = 0;

		/* noexec32=on\|off
		Control non executable heap for 32bit processes.