On Monday 09 July 2007, Scott Wood wrote: > In older versions of glibc (through 2.3), the dynamic linker executes a > small amount of code from the data segment, which is not marked as > executable. A recent change (commit 9ba4ace39fdfe22268daca9f28c5df384ae462cf) > stops this from working; there should be a deprecation period before > older glibc versions stop working. > > The problem has been observed on glibc 2.2. While glibc 2.3 has the same > code, I did not see the problem; it may be that it accesses the page in > question as data before executing from it, and thus it is already mapped.
I may be missing the obvious, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of non-executable mappings? Arnd <>< _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev