Comment 6 for bug 745181

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

Confirmed to be fixed...

With 2.6.35-29.50-generic: $ dmesg | grep NX
[ 0.000000] Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection cannot be enabled in hardware: non-PAE kernel!
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With 2.6.35-29.51-generic: $ dmesg | grep NX
[ 0.000000] Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection cannot be enabled in hardware: non-PAE kernel!
[ 0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: approximated by x86 segment limits
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