> I thought that this was the original purpose of the "stack randomization" > which is shipped for example by RedHat kernels, as the randomization is > quite small and easy to bruteforce, so it can't serve too much as a buffer > overflow protection.
correct; that was for the p4 hyperthreading case (that code fwiw is still in the 2.6 mainline kernel and active; it randomizes over an 8k region for this purpose) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
