AMD buffer overflow protection and Linux

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 02:29, James Drabb wrote:
> Has anyone hear about this:
> http://tinyurl.com/zllg
> 
> What about support for Linux?  This could come in very handy and I
> certainly do not want to see this as some MS only feature  : (
> 
> One quote from the article:
> 
> Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD says it has included code in all its 64-bit
> Athlon and Opteron-brand processors that Microsoft soon plans to use to
> make it far more difficult for hackers to exploit buffer overflows --
> one of the most widespread computer security holes.
> 
> It sounds like this code is already there.  Any support in Linux yet? 
> It would be nice if this support was in Linux first : )

Old news. Sounds like its talking about the non-executable
stack support, which Linux amd64 has supported for a long time.

	Dave