From: Anthony G. Basile PAX_EMUTRAMP is needed for libffi to avoid RWX mmap-ings using PaX emulation of trampolines. We default PAX_EMUTRAMP='y' since almost all hardened users will want this. See bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329499 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457194 diff -Naur linux-3.9.2-hardened.orig/security/Kconfig linux-3.9.2-hardened/security/Kconfig --- linux-3.9.2-hardened.orig/security/Kconfig 2013-05-18 08:53:41.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-3.9.2-hardened/security/Kconfig 2013-05-18 09:17:57.000000000 -0400 @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ config PAX_EMUTRAMP bool "Emulate trampolines" if (PAX_PAGEEXEC || PAX_SEGMEXEC) && (PARISC || X86) - default y if PARISC + default y help There are some programs and libraries that for one reason or another attempt to execute special small code snippets from