PING: [PATCH] Run vismain only if linker supports protected data symbol

[H.J. Lu]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:15 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 12:54 PM, H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com> wrote:
>> Gold doesn't support protected data symbol:
>>
>> configure:5672: checking linker support for protected data symbol
>> configure:5682: gcc -fuse-ld=gold -nostdlib -nostartfiles -fno-stack-protector -fPIC -shared conftest.c -o conftest.so
>> configure:5685: $? = 0
>> configure:5692: gcc -fuse-ld=gold -nostdlib -nostartfiles -fno-stack-protector conftest.c -o conftest conftest.so
>> /usr/local/bin/ld.gold: error: /tmp/ccXWoofs.o: cannot make copy relocation for protected symbol 'bar', defined in conftest.so
>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>>
>> Run vismain only if linker supports protected data symbol.
>>
>> Any comments?
>
> PING.

Any objections?

>> H.J.
>>         * elf/Makefile (tests): Add vismain only if
>>         $(have-protected-data) == yes.
>>         (tests-pie): Likewise.
>> ---
>>  elf/Makefile | 2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/elf/Makefile b/elf/Makefile
>> index 201b328..62084b4 100644
>> --- a/elf/Makefile
>> +++ b/elf/Makefile
>> @@ -289,10 +289,12 @@ ifeq (yesyes,$(have-fpie)$(build-shared))
>>  modules-names += tst-piemod1
>>  tests += tst-pie1 tst-pie2
>>  tests-pie += tst-pie1 tst-pie2
>> +ifeq (yes,$(have-protected-data))
>>  tests += vismain
>>  tests-pie += vismain
>>  CFLAGS-vismain.c = $(PIE-ccflag)
>>  endif
>> +endif
>>  modules-execstack-yes = tst-execstack-mod
>>  extra-test-objs += $(addsuffix .os,$(strip $(modules-names)))
>>
>> --
>> 2.9.4
>>
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> --
> H.J.



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H.J.