Message ID | 20101121070342.GE4617@outflux.net |
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State | Accepted |
Delegated to: | Tim Gardner |
Headers | show |
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:03:42PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > This nx-emu commit: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland.git;a=commitdiff;h=b86f45c02494d4cba26caf132e8a178854e812fd > was intended to replace "exec_shield" with "!disable_nx", but in > x86_report_nx() it was not correctly inverted resulting in a backward > report to dmesg about the state of nx-emu. > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Thanks, applied (to Fedora at least.) --Kyle
On 11/21/2010 12:03 AM, Kees Cook wrote: > This nx-emu commit: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland.git;a=commitdiff;h=b86f45c02494d4cba26caf132e8a178854e812fd > was intended to replace "exec_shield" with "!disable_nx", but in > x86_report_nx() it was not correctly inverted resulting in a backward > report to dmesg about the state of nx-emu. > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook<kees.cook@canonical.com> > --- > arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c b/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c > index b936b25..1d7a269 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c > @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ void __init x86_report_nx(void) > { > if (!cpu_has_nx) { > #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 > - if (disable_nx) > + if (!disable_nx) > printk(KERN_INFO "NX (Execute Disable) protection: " > "approximated by x86 segment limits\n"); > else Applied to Ubuntu natty
I merged it into my fedora/x86-nx-emulation tree. Thanks, Roland
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c b/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c index b936b25..1d7a269 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ void __init x86_report_nx(void) { if (!cpu_has_nx) { #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 - if (disable_nx) + if (!disable_nx) printk(KERN_INFO "NX (Execute Disable) protection: " "approximated by x86 segment limits\n"); else
This nx-emu commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland.git;a=commitdiff;h=b86f45c02494d4cba26caf132e8a178854e812fd was intended to replace "exec_shield" with "!disable_nx", but in x86_report_nx() it was not correctly inverted resulting in a backward report to dmesg about the state of nx-emu. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> --- arch/x86/mm/setup_nx.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)