linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf, tool: Fix perf stack to non executable on x86

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Date:	Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:50:48 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:	acme@...hat.com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, mingo@...e.hu,
	paulus@...ba.org, cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, tool: Fix perf stack to non executable on x86_64

Le mercredi 01 février 2012 à 13:54 +0100, Jiri Olsa a écrit :
> By adding following objects:
>   bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.o
>   bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o
> the x86_64 perf binary ended up with executable stack.
> 
> The reason was that above objects are assembler sourced and
> are missing the GNU-stack note section. In such case the linker
> assumes that the final binary should not be restricted at all
> and mark the stack as RWX.
> 
> Adding section ".note.GNU-stack" definition to mentioned objects,
> with all flags disabled, thus omiting those objects from linker
> stack flags decision.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
> ---

Good catch, thanks !

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>


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