On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:11:09PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
Doesn't appear to work?
kyle@dreadnought ~/src/linux-2.6 $ git remote
add kees-execshield
git://kernel.ubuntu.com/kees/linux-2.6.git
kyle@dreadnought ~/src/linux-2.6 $ git fetch kees-execshield
kernel.ubuntu.com[0: 91.189.94.216]: errno=Connection timed out
fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out)
In looking at how "exec-shield" is used, I was thinking
that maybe the
"nonexec" flag should be used instead. It could have multiple settings,
maybe. It seems like it could be used for:
off
hw-only
emu-if-needed
There also seems to be the "2" setting which ignores the stack-exec
markings, but that seems like it should be a separate feature. If we can
clean it up a little more, I'd really like to try to for upstream
inclusion. I know there has been resistance to it in the past, but
nearly every distro includes this patch set now; it's silly not to have it
upstream.
Yes, we've been saying for a while that the randomization stuff needs to
be gutted from exec-shield. There is still a lot of work left cleaning
up exec-shield, all the hooks are pretty out of order.
The second commit "x86: clean up nx-emu for ia32-only" adds
a bunch more
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 around things, mostly I think the primary change in
behavior that would be visible to Fedora would be having the "exec-shield"
sysctl vanish on x86_64, and to fall back to mainline ASLR in the non-emu
case.
I suspect all this is still too invasive in the generic code to be
palatable.
> > Is there a better place (public Fedora mailing list?) for
me to send these?
> >
>
> fedora-kernel-list(a)redhat.com if you want.
Cheers, Kyle