[PATCH] Revert "[ARM] disable NX support for OABI-supporting kernels"

Rabin Vincent rabin at rab.in
Wed Jan 13 14:47:37 EST 2010


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 at rab.in>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/elf.c |    9 ---------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/elf.c b/arch/arm/kernel/elf.c
index 950391f..d4a0da1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/elf.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/elf.c
@@ -78,15 +78,6 @@ int arm_elf_read_implies_exec(const struct elf32_hdr *x, int executable_stack)
 		return 1;
 	if (cpu_architecture() < CPU_ARCH_ARMv6)
 		return 1;
-#if !defined(CONFIG_AEABI) || defined(CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT)
-	/*
-	 * If we have support for OABI programs, we can never allow NX
-	 * support - our signal syscall restart mechanism relies upon
-	 * being able to execute code placed on the user stack.
-	 */
-	return 1;
-#else
 	return 0;
-#endif
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(arm_elf_read_implies_exec);
-- 
1.6.5




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