From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030385AbWGMUye (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:54:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030386AbWGMUye (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:54:34 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:24038 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030385AbWGMUyd (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:54:33 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Don't randomize stack unless current->personality permits it From: Arjan van de Ven To: Al Boldi Cc: Frank van Maarseveen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen In-Reply-To: <200607132351.04721.a1426z@gawab.com> References: <200607112257.22069.a1426z@gawab.com> <20060713094402.GB2448@janus> <200607132351.04721.a1426z@gawab.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:54:31 +0200 Message-Id: <1152824071.3024.89.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > BTW, why does randomize_stack_top() mod against (8192*1024) instead of (8192) > like arch_align_stack()? > because it wants to randomize for 8Mb, unlike arch_align_stack which wants to randomize the last 8Kb within this 8Mb ;)