Re: kern/42977: pkg/samba requires vm.user_va0_disable=0

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR kern/42977; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: kern/42977: pkg/samba requires vm.user_va0_disable=0
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:47:42 -0400

 On Mar 15,  8:20pm, elad%NetBSD.org@localhost (Elad Efrat) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/42977: pkg/samba requires vm.user_va0_disable=0
 
 |  I have a feeling this should move under security.pax, and have
 |  enabled/global knobs too, along with (for now) ELF flags to allow
 |  fine-grained control over what is exempt from this. That'll at least
 |  allow integration with the build system/pkgsrc and auto-enabling the
 |  exempt flags where needed.
 
 I think it should be easy enough to fix in the kernel without userland
 involvement... I think it has to do with the loading of dyn elf objects.
 
 christos