On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: > > So in the immediate term, if we drop the problem 65248 patch, we're back in > a state where the DSO and the executable can have two different views of > certain objects. In which case we really need a solution in place to flag > that as an error, which is #1 in your list of mitigations.
>From program behavior perspective, there is nothing wrong with my changes to ld, ld.so and GCC. The main drawback is my changes make protected symbol pretty much useless in term of faster access within the shared object. All these are due to incompatibility between protected symbol and copy relocation. -- H.J.