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XFAIL check-execstack for MIPS [committed]
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 16:43:27 +0000
- Subject: XFAIL check-execstack for MIPS [committed]
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This patch marks the check-execstack test as expected to fail for
MIPS, with a comment referencing previous RFC discussion of the
changes that would be needed to support non-executable stacks on MIPS.
Tested for MIPS (all 24 ABIs). Committed.
2016-11-04 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile [$(subdir) = elf]
(test-xfail-check-execstack): New variable.
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile
index c6729c1..bca11d3 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile
@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ sysdep-dl-routines += dl-static
sysdep_routines += dl-vdso
endif
+
+# Supporting non-executable stacks on MIPS requires changes to both
+# the Linux kernel and glibc. See
+# <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-01/msg00567.html> and
+# <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-01/msg00719.html>.
+test-xfail-check-execstack = yes
endif
ifeq ($(subdir),stdlib)
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com