Re: wine/dlls/ntdll virtual.c

[Mike Hearn]

> Log message:
>    Don't request PROT_EXEC permissions when mapping an image file to
>    avoid problems on noexec filesystems with kernel 2.6.

http://people.redhat.com/mingo/exec-shield/ANNOUNCE-exec-shield

According to the exec-shield paper, its effects can include revealing
"bugs in applications that assume PROT_READ implies PROT_EXEC" due to the
funky things it does with relocations into the ASCII-armour. Not sure but
it might be worth ensuring mprotect is called afterwards....

Just a random thought, I don't think it'd matter in this case as we use
MAP_FIXED anyway.

wine/dlls/ntdll virtual.c

[Alexandre Julliard]

Mike Hearn  writes:
> According to the exec-shield paper, its effects can include revealing
> "bugs in applications that assume PROT_READ implies PROT_EXEC" due to the
> funky things it does with relocations into the ASCII-armour. Not sure but
> it might be worth ensuring mprotect is called afterwards....

mprotect is always called, and anyway the area is allocated with
PROT_EXEC already so it shouldn't make any difference.