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[ARM] disable NX support for OABI-supporting kernels

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Our signal syscall restart handling for these kernels still uses
the userspace stack to build code for restarting the syscall.
Unfortunately, fixing this is non-trivial, and so for the time
being, we resolve the problem by disabling NX support.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King 2009-05-23 11:36:20 +01:00 committed by Russell King
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commit 14f0aa3593
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@ -78,6 +78,15 @@ 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);