This nx-emu commit:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland.git;a=commitdiff;h=
b86f45c02494d4cba26caf132e8a178854e812fd
was intended to replace "exec_shield" with "!disable_nx", but in
x86_report_nx() it was not correctly inverted resulting in a backward
report to dmesg about the state of nx-emu.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
{
if (!cpu_has_nx) {
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
- if (disable_nx)
+ if (!disable_nx)
printk(KERN_INFO "NX (Execute Disable) protection: "
"approximated by x86 segment limits\n");
else