[Oneiric][pull request] Update/consolidate nx-emu

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Wed May 25 17:02:35 UTC 2011


On 05/25/2011 09:17 AM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> Applied to Oneiric master-next.
>
> Thanks,
> Leann
>
> On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 14:04 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> The following changes since commit 1e9ed812fef72843c4cbd4a1dd5c248aff332184:
>>
>>    UBUNTU: Ubuntu-2.6.39-3.9 (2011-05-20 09:53:38 +0100)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>    git://kernel.ubuntu.com/kees/ubuntu-oneiric.git master
>>
>> Ingo Molnar (2):
>>        UBUNTU: ubuntu: nx-emu - i386: NX emulation
>>        UBUNTU: ubuntu: nx-emu - i386: mmap randomization for executable mappings
>>
>> Kees Cook (8):
>>        Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: nx-emu: further clarify dmesg reporting"
>>        Revert "nx-emu: fix inverted report of disable_nx"
>>        Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: nx-emu: use upstream ASLR when possible"
>>        Revert "exec-randomization: brk away from exec rand area"
>>        Revert "mmap randomization for executable mappings on 32-bit"
>>        Revert "nx-emu: standardize boottime message prefix"
>>        Revert "nx-emu: drop exec-shield sysctl, merge with disable_nx"
>>        Revert "i386: NX emulation"
>>
>>   arch/x86/kernel/process.c |    6 +++---
>>   mm/mmap.c                 |    6 +++---
>>   2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> (The above delta between reverts and commits are comment clean-ups and one
>> minor code position change for general clarification. Also, I made Ingo the
>> author, since the bulk of the code is his work. Hopefully this won't
>> complicate the delta review too badly.)
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Kees
>>
>> --
>> Kees Cook
>> Ubuntu Security Team
>>
>
>
>

Leann - I think you should just rebase the reverts out of existence 
since they don't really have any historical relevance for Oneiric, 
especially now that we'll never rebase against Natty again.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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