linux-kernel - Re: RFC: binutils PATCH: Set e_type to ET

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Message-ID: <52A76AD5.40602@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:26:13 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>
CC:	Binutils <binutils@...rceware.org>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: binutils PATCH: Set e_type to ET_EXEC for -pie -Ttext-segment=

On 12/10/2013 11:15 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>
>> Either way, if the *only* goal is to get the file above a certain point,
>> like 4 GiB, then there is no reason not to randomize upward.
> 
> I agree that kernel should load ET_DYN binary anywhere.  I will
> change linker to set type to ET_EXEC if p_vaddr != 0.
> 

I didn't say "anywhere".  I said "at or above the p_vaddr".

	-hpa

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