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authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>2012-02-01 13:54:08 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-02-06 19:14:17 -0200
commite89cef136a8b56eef1acf702591fd3039fc3385d (patch)
treef3d5eeee5a8e4172834e7e3a6b41dfcea10cf358 /tools/perf
parent5ddf146f70a44ed4133dea4d377b172605a1cfa5 (diff)
perf tool: Fix perf stack to non executable on x86_64
By adding following objects: bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.o bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o the x86_64 perf binary ended up with executable stack. The reason was that above objects are assembler sourced and are missing the GNU-stack note section. In such case the linker assumes that the final binary should not be restricted at all and mark the stack as RWX. Adding section ".note.GNU-stack" definition to mentioned objects, with all flags disabled, thus omiting those objects from linker stack flags decision. Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783570 Reported-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328100848-5630-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> [ committer note: Remaining bits after what was already added to perf/urgent ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.S7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.S b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.S
index cb921706377..9e5af89ed13 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.S
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.S
@@ -4,3 +4,10 @@
#define Lmemset_c globl memset_c; memset_c
#define Lmemset_c_e globl memset_c_e; memset_c_e
#include "../../../arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S"
+
+/*
+ * We need to provide note.GNU-stack section, saying that we want
+ * NOT executable stack. Otherwise the final linking will assume that
+ * the ELF stack should not be restricted at all and set it RWX.
+ */
+.section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits