[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 399] executable code in data areas must be marked executable

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------- Additional Comments From mharris at www.linux.org.uk  2004-04-03 01:41 -------
I agree that the Mesa portion needs to be merged upstream, and it is probably
a good idea to get it merged there first, so that it doesn't have to be
carried forward.  John submitted it upstream to Mesa/DRI folks recently whom
indicated that they are going to merge it into Mesa soon, which is a good
sign.  ;o)

It would still be a good idea to get John's patch merged into X.org though,
if not right away, then perhaps at least once it is confirmed to be in the
Mesa tree.  Otherwise there will probably be an increase of users reporting
DRI and/or X server crashing bugs when running on systems that disable
stack/heap execution by default.  Currently that includes Fedora Core 1,
Fedora Core 2 testX, and I believe also Gentoo, and possibly other Linux
distributions are also starting to use the new exec-shield functionality
or similar.  OpenBSD aparently has similar.

Just a heads up that there might be an increase of bugs reported without
this or similar patches in the Xorg tree.  ;oP



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