On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 09:02:45PM +0200, Mathias Krause wrote:
> arch/x86/tests/regs_load.S is missing the linker note about the stack
> requirements, therefore making the linker fall back to an executable
> stack. As this object gets linked against the final perf binary, it'll
> needlessly end up with an executable stack.
>
> Fix this by adding the appropriate linker note.
>
> Fixes: 3c8b06f981 ("perf tests x86: Introduce perf_regs_load function")
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <mini...@googlemail.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com>
>
> ---
> tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/regs_load.S | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/regs_load.S
> b/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/regs_load.S
> index 99167bf644..60875d5c55 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/regs_load.S
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/regs_load.S
> @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
> -
> #include <linux/linkage.h>
>
> #define AX 0
> @@ -90,3 +89,10 @@ ENTRY(perf_regs_load)
> ret
> ENDPROC(perf_regs_load)
> #endif
> +
> +/*
> + * 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
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
hum, how about fixing this once and for all.. ;-)
please check attached patch, thanks
jirka
---
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S
b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S
index fcd9cf0..a20780b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S
@@ -4,9 +4,3 @@
#define Lmemcpy_c globl memcpy_c; memcpy_c
#define Lmemcpy_c_e globl memcpy_c_e; memcpy_c_e
#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
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.S
b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.S
index 9e5af89..cb92170 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.S
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.S
@@ -4,10 +4,3 @@
#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
diff --git a/tools/perf/config/Makefile b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
index d50869e..dd56b6b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/config/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/config/Makefile
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ CFLAGS += -Wall
CFLAGS += -Wextra
CFLAGS += -std=gnu99
+# force non-executable stack
+LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,noexecstack
+
EXTLIBS = -lelf -lpthread -lrt -lm -ldl
ifneq ($(OUTPUT),)
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