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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2011-04-14	ARM: 6878/1: fix personality flag propagation across an exec	Nicolas Pitre	1	-5/+12
	Our SET_PERSONALITY() implementation was overwriting all existing personality flags, including ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE, making them unavailable to processes being exec'd after a call to personality() in user space. This prevents the gdb test suite from running successfully. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-01-18	ARM: 5883/1: Revert "disable NX support for OABI-supporting kernels"	Rabin Vincent	1	-9/+0
	This reverts commit 14f0aa359365e8a93a77b71e3b840274b9b4dcb1. That commit was needed earlier because system call restarting for OABI (compat) required an executable stack and thus had problems with NX. Since ab72b00734ae4d0b ("ARM: Fix signal restart issues with NX and OABI compat") has reworked the code to not require an executable stack anymore, we can re-enable NX support for kernels with OABI (compat) support. Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-23	[ARM] disable NX support for OABI-supporting kernels	Russell King	1	-0/+9
	Our signal syscall restart handling for these kernels still uses the userspace stack to build code for restarting the syscall. Unfortunately, fixing this is non-trivial, and so for the time being, we resolve the problem by disabling NX support. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-02-19	[ARM] 5404/1: Fix condition in arm_elf_read_implies_exec() to set READ_IMPLIES_EXEC	Makito SHIOKAWA	1	-2/+2
	READ_IMPLIES_EXEC must be set when: o binary _is_ an executable stack (i.e. not EXSTACK_DISABLE_X) o processor architecture is _under_ ARMv6 (XN bit is supported from ARMv6) Signed-off-by: Makito SHIOKAWA <lkhmkt@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-11-04	[ARM] fix VFP+softfloat binaries	Russell King	1	-1/+5
	2.6.28-rc tightened up the ELF architecture checks on ARM. For non-EABI it only allows VFP if the hardware supports it. However, the kernel fails to also inspect the soft-float flag, so it incorrectly rejects binaries using soft-VFP. The fix is simple: also check that EF_ARM_SOFT_FLOAT isn't set before rejecting VFP binaries on non-VFP hardware. Acked-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-01	[ARM] Improve non-executable support	Russell King	1	-0/+79
	Add support for detecting non-executable stack binaries, and adjust permissions to prevent execution from data and stack areas. Also, ensure that READ_IMPLIES_EXEC is enabled for older CPUs where that is true, and for any executable-stack binary. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>