On Fri, 2020-04-24 at 00:08 +0200, Markus Gothe wrote:
> Background: The executable stack is needed for MIPS and the FPU
> (which
> decodes any unknown instruction as well).
> 
> There have been some patches floating around to fix this behavior
> since
> Linux 3.12 so probably that's why you didn't notice before upgrading.
> 
> The 'dc' applet at least requires an executable stack and might be
> why
> it is triggered. (Did get a MIPS32-kernel to go crash with 'bad
> stack'
> when running dc -e '4 0 / p' however it's fixed in 1.31.0).
> 
> //M

OK and I can confirm that I do get the error message on mips64 and
mips32 (I just failed to notice in my automated test output).

So executable stack is required for floating point on mips? Should I
send a kernel patch to add  && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIPS) to the warning?

> 
> On 2020-04-23 23:39, Chris Packham wrote:
> > On Thu, 2020-04-23 at 07:29 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Christophe
> > > 
> > > Le 23/04/2020 à 03:13, Chris Packham a écrit :
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm just in the process of updating our products to Linux v5.6
> > > > and
> > > > one
> > > > of them produces a new warning message from the kernel about
> > > > busybox
> > > > (v1.31.1)
> > > > 
> > > >    kernel: process '/bin/busybox' started with executable stack
> > > 
> > > Got similar discussion about klibc 2 monthes ago, look at 
> > > https://lists.zytor.com/archives/klibc/2020-February/004271.html
> > > 
> > > > The target in question is a mips64 (octeon3). We have other
> > > > targets
> > > > (mips32, armv7, ppc32, ppc64) which don't complain.
> > > > 
> > > > Some searching led me to
> > > > 
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191208171918.GC19716@avx2/
> > > > 
> > > > Which suggests I should be filing a bug report with the vendor
> > > > so
> > > > here
> > > > I am.
> > > 
> > > Did you have a look into busybox bugzilla ? 
> > > https://bugs.busybox.net/
> > 
> > I did a quick search of the mailing list didn't spot anything
> > yesterday.
> > 
> > Just now I did find https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12801
> > which is in the ball-park. It points at uclibc + binutils 2.31. I'm
> > using GNU libc and binutils 2.32.
> > 
> > > > Here's some readelf output from the binary
> > > 
> > > Can you perform "objdump -x " on your binary ?
> > > 
> > 
> > The output is quite large so I'll link to it instead of including
> > it
> > in-line.
> > 
> > https://gist.github.com/cpackham/48eeab4b8801a57ef737e3fda265cae7
> > 
> > Interestingly I can't see anything rwx or RWE in either output
> > 
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