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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
		Generic System V Application Binary Interface
	<generic-abi@googlegroups.com>,
	gnu-gabi@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Audit external function called indirectly via GOT
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOogarcRF1OzM3NbTGUH_7+JH9oduMWu8mdHjwy_-qsY0Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76f5551d-e8dc-4915-e3d8-54a2305a5718@redhat.com>

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:36 AM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Using ld.so-generated thunks for all GLOB_DAT function symbol
>> relocations would happen in audit mode only and should work with
>> existing binaries which were built with -Wl,-z,now.
>
> This is a very good reason to prefer one method over another, that we
> could fix existing binaries. However, I still think the complexity of
> such a fix outweighs what we are trying to fix. Do we have another use
> for such stubs?

If you take a look at BFD linker, it generates different PLT layouts for
MPX and CET.  It is totally transparent to ld.so.  Putting all PLT choices
as well as adding new ones in ld.so is very complex.  I don't believe they
belong to ld.so.

-- 
H.J.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-22 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-01  0:00 H.J. Lu
2018-01-01  0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00   ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01  0:00     ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00       ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-01-01  0:00         ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00           ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-01-01  0:00             ` Cary Coutant
2018-01-01  0:00               ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01  0:00                 ` Cary Coutant
2018-01-01  0:00                   ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01  0:00                     ` Cary Coutant
2018-01-01  0:00             ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2018-01-01  0:00               ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-01-01  0:00             ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00               ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01  0:00                 ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00                   ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01  0:00           ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01  0:00     ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00       ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01  0:00         ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00 ` Cary Coutant
2018-01-01  0:00   ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-01-01  0:00     ` Cary Coutant
2018-01-01  0:00       ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01  0:00         ` Cary Coutant
2018-01-01  0:00           ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01  0:00           ` Cary Coutant
2018-01-01  0:00       ` Alan Modra
2018-01-01  0:00         ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01  0:00           ` Alan Modra
2018-01-01  0:00             ` H.J. Lu

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