linux-kernel - Re: noexec=on doesn't work

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Message-ID: <20061209200323.GA21514@athena.road.mcmartin.ca>
Date:	Sat, 9 Dec 2006 15:03:23 -0500
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...ntu.com>
To:	John Richard Moser <nigelenki@...cast.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: noexec=on doesn't work

On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 02:34:47PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> I have filed this as a distro bug with Ubuntu; it may be their issue, I
> haven't dug deep enough to find out.  I am posting this here to disperse
> the information breadth-first instead of depth-first, which will shorten
> the bug's life cycle if it turns out to be an upstream bug.
> 

NX requires the 64-bit page table entries (ie, PAE) which requires
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G.

Why are you posting to linux-kernel@ without even checking the upstream
kernel, anyway?

plonk.

	Kyle M.
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