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authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>2012-02-06 18:54:06 -0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-02-06 18:54:06 -0200
commit7a0153ee15575a4d07b5da8c96b79e0b0fd41a12 (patch)
tree729e6000f76c585117d43e1c050ea0bdacefec02 /tools
parent84f2b9b2edc09595569c7397cc3c888764ffd78b (diff)
perf tools: Fix perf stack to non executable on x86_64
By adding following objects: bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o the x86_64 perf binary ended up with executable stack. The reason was that above object are assembler sourced and is 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 object, with all flags disabled, thus omiting this object from linker stack flags decision. Problem introduced in: $ git describe ea7872b v2.6.37-rc2-19-gea7872b 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> Cc: stable@kernel.org 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: Backported fix to perf/urgent (3.3-rc2+) ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S
index a57b66e853c..185a96d66dd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S
@@ -1,2 +1,8 @@
#include "../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_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