On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 3:21 PM, PaX Team <pagee...@freemail.hu> wrote: > On 22 Feb 2016 at 12:46, Kees Cook wrote: > >> GCC really wants to declare the section. :( > > hmm, i see, so how about going about it another way. instead of trying > to do this at compile/link time, do it an load/runtime. one way of doing > it would be to preserve a page in .rodata then map in a code page underneath > that holds your empty function (which you can generate from C). it'd be > somewhat similar to how the vsyscall page on amd64 is mapped (or used to > be mapped) from the kernel image into its userland visible place.
I prefer using all the "regular" mechanisms so that I really know I'm exercising the actual case I want to be testing. (i.e. I don't want to bypass the linker.) If only there were some way to filter gcc output, like with plugins. ;) -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS & Brillo Security
