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Re: [AArch64] Generate DT_TEXTREL when there is relocation against read-only section
- From: Jiong Wang <jiong dot wang at arm dot com>
- To: Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "binutils\ at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:26:21 +0100
- Subject: Re: [AArch64] Generate DT_TEXTREL when there is relocation against read-only section
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Marcus Shawcroft writes:
> On 19 June 2015 at 10:05, Jiong Wang <jiong.wang@arm.com> wrote:
>>
>> This patch fix the SEGSEGV noticed on some scenarios when there is
>> relocation against read-only segment in the program.
>>
>> We need to generate DT_TEXTREL entry in .dynamic section to
>> notify dynamic linker that there are relocations against read-only
>> segment, that dynamic linker can invoke mprotect to change the segment
>> attribute into writable, and after relocation finished, change it back
>> to read-only.
>>
>> OK for trunk?
>
> OK, can you back port to 2.25 aswell please? /Marcus
Thanks. This atch applies cleanly on 2.25 branch, pushed to both.
trunk: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=c217058957a45a93481da35e1531ed120750d739
2.25 : https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=372832d02571c8a6e470cc601bd904c18f7bc374
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Regards,
Jiong