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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Generic System V Application Binary Interface
	<generic-abi@googlegroups.com>
Cc: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.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: <CAMe9rOrtf-ma=a4=HHxg1OqucUR5V_n6=6Uci2ntpDJKVrjfHg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180322122957.GQ3812@bubble.grove.modra.org>

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 5:29 AM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:15:26PM -0700, Cary Coutant wrote:
>> If you get rid of the GOT entry, and have the point of call jump
>> indirectly through the PLTGOT entry, which is initialized to point to
>> part (b) of the PLT entry, everything should work the same as without
>> -fno-plt. Essentially, all -fno-plt would do is inline part (a) of the
>> PLT entry.
>>
>> -cary
>>
>> * I'm using parts (a) and (b) to refer to the two parts of a PLT
>> entry: (a) an indirect jump via the PLTGOT entry, and (b) code that
>> jumps to the lazy binding routine, passing the JUMP_SLOT index.
>
> Yes, that essentially is what I've done for -fno-plt on powerpc.
> The call stub code is inlined while the rest of the PLT is more or
> less unchanged.  So you get all of the usual lazy-binding features
> by default, and can use "-z now -z relro" if you want a read-only
> PLT.
>

On x86, PLT is always read-only.  The issue is the writable PLTGOT.
On x86, -fno-plt removes the writable PLTGOT.  My proposal puts
back the writable PLTGOT which is only used for LD_AUDIT.

-- 
H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-22 12:39 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 ` 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 [this message]
2018-01-01  0:00           ` Alan Modra
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             ` 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               ` 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
2018-01-01  0:00     ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-01  0:00       ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01  0:00         ` Florian Weimer

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