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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] elf: Enable relro for static build
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 18:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h82iy48o.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <104ece90-2d18-d655-dafd-1084e32a9c4f@linaro.org> (Adhemerval Zanella's message of "Mon, 2 Dec 2019 10:57:50 -0300")

* Adhemerval Zanella:

>> Somewhat bizarrely, full RELRO for statically linked binaries
>> requires linking with -z now.

> My understanding it is arch-specific and also depends on how
> bintuils was build.  For instance, with my system ld (GNU ld (GNU
> Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.30) seemed to be built with
> DEFAULT_LD_Z_RELRO (set by --enable-relro) which sets relro by
> default.  With this binutils I could only disable relro by explicit
> add norelro, the -z {lazy,now} did not change the GNU_RELRO header
> creation.

Whether -z relro gives you full RELRO depends somewhat on the
architecture and what relocations can be eliminated from the static
link.  Objects built with -fPIC tend to leave relocations behind,
though, and to protect them, you need -z now.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-02 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-29 21:03 [PATCH 1/7] linux: Update x86 vDSO symbols Adhemerval Zanella
2019-11-29 21:03 ` [PATCH 4/7] linux: Update mips " Adhemerval Zanella
2019-11-29 21:03 ` [PATCH 5/7] elf: Enable relro for static build Adhemerval Zanella
2019-12-01  9:55   ` Florian Weimer
2019-12-02 13:57     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-12-02 18:25       ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2019-12-02 18:54         ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-12-02 19:03           ` Florian Weimer
2019-12-02 19:33             ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-12-03 13:53               ` [PATCH v2] " Adhemerval Zanella
2019-11-29 21:03 ` [PATCH 2/7] x86: Make x32 use x86 time implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2019-11-29 21:03 ` [PATCH 7/7] elf: Move vDSO setup to rtld Adhemerval Zanella
2019-11-29 21:03 ` [PATCH 6/7] linux: Refactor sched_getcpu in terms of getcpu Adhemerval Zanella
2019-12-01 14:22   ` Florian Weimer
2019-12-02 14:00     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2019-12-03 13:56       ` [PATCH v2] linux: Add inline getcpu implementation for sched_getcpu and getcpu Adhemerval Zanella
2019-11-29 21:03 ` [PATCH 3/7] Remove vDSO support from make-syscall.sh Adhemerval Zanella

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