PATCH: PR ld/5149: Set PF_X for PT_GNU_RELRO segment only when needed
Alan Modra
amodra@bigpond.net.au
Wed Oct 24 08:42:00 GMT 2007
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:31:09PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> PR ld/5149
> * elf.c (assign_file_positions_for_non_load_sections): Set
> PF_X for PT_GNU_RELRO segment only if a section has
> SHF_EXECINSTR.
I took a look at what glibc ld.so does with PT_GNU_RELRO and it
appears that p_flags are completely ignored. The mprotect call
always uses PROT_READ. So I don't really see the point of this
patch.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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