Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Add exec shield notation to LDFLAGS

2008-04-08 Thread Mel Gorman
On (15/01/08 10:22), Adam Litke didst pronounce: > Newer versions of GNU ld have an option to explicitly state that a > program does not require a stack with execute permissions. In this > case, additional security measures can be taken by the kernel and > operating system*. Add this flag to the

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Add exec shield notation to LDFLAGS

2008-04-01 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 31.01.2008 [13:00:54 -0600], Adam Litke wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:11 -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > On 16.01.2008 [11:10:22 +1100], David Gibson wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:22:19AM -0600, Adam Litke wrote: > > > > Newer versions of GNU ld have an option to explicitl

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Add exec shield notation to LDFLAGS

2008-01-31 Thread Adam Litke
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:11 -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > On 16.01.2008 [11:10:22 +1100], David Gibson wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:22:19AM -0600, Adam Litke wrote: > > > Newer versions of GNU ld have an option to explicitly state that a > > > program does not require a stack with e

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Add exec shield notation to LDFLAGS

2008-01-30 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 16.01.2008 [11:10:22 +1100], David Gibson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:22:19AM -0600, Adam Litke wrote: > > Newer versions of GNU ld have an option to explicitly state that a > > program does not require a stack with execute permissions. In this > > case, additional security measures can

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Add exec shield notation to LDFLAGS

2008-01-15 Thread David Gibson
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:22:19AM -0600, Adam Litke wrote: > Newer versions of GNU ld have an option to explicitly state that a > program does not require a stack with execute permissions. In this > case, additional security measures can be taken by the kernel and > operating system*. Add this f

[Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] Add exec shield notation to LDFLAGS

2008-01-15 Thread Adam Litke
Newer versions of GNU ld have an option to explicitly state that a program does not require a stack with execute permissions. In this case, additional security measures can be taken by the kernel and operating system*. Add this flag to the top-level Makefile since none of our targets require an e