From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ld.so: Handle read-only dynamic section gracefully [BZ #28340]
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 19:23:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOr7nQdaD=0BbwMJE8mEnD6KV52jP-sAdw9r2=sDzNULhg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d0f8dcc-35d4-d87a-b3b0-c006fdfe482f@sourceware.org>
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 6:44 PM Siddhesh Poyarekar
<siddhesh@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/15/21 10:04 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 9:24 AM Siddhesh Poyarekar
> > <siddhesh@sourceware.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 9/15/21 9:43 PM, H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha wrote:
> >>> Can you extract logic from setup_vdso to handle DSOs without
> >>> relocations?
> >>
> >> The logic is already in elf_get_dynamic_info; setup_vdso only supplies
> >> the static temp buffer to store the adjustments. We could dynamically
> >> allocate memory for every DSO that has a read-only dynamic segment and
> >> put the adjustments there, pointing l->l_info pointers to it, but is it
> >> really necessary? What's the use case for a DSO with a read-only
> >> dynamic segment?
> >>
> >> Siddhesh
> >
> > I think there are 2 separate, but related cases: read-only dynamic
> > segment and DSOs without relocations.
>
> What's the use case for read-only dynamic segments beyond VDSO? That
> is, in what situations would one need to load an relocatable DSO (or
> execute a PIE program) that has a read-only dynamic segment? On the
> other hand for DSOs without relocations, in what situations do you see a
> valid object having a read-only DYNAMIC segment?
There is nothing wrong with read-only dynamic segment.
--
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-16 2:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-14 19:09 Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-14 19:15 ` Florian Weimer
2021-09-15 1:14 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-15 14:35 ` H.J. Lu
2021-09-15 15:42 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-15 16:13 ` H.J. Lu
2021-09-15 16:24 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-15 16:34 ` H.J. Lu
2021-09-16 1:43 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-16 2:23 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2021-09-16 3:46 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-16 4:26 ` H.J. Lu
2021-09-16 4:28 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-16 4:30 ` H.J. Lu
2021-09-16 4:48 ` Florian Weimer
2021-09-16 5:36 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-16 5:46 ` Florian Weimer
2021-09-16 6:04 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-16 14:11 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-09-16 15:18 ` H.J. Lu
2021-09-16 16:45 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-16 17:38 ` H.J. Lu
2021-09-16 17:58 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-16 22:11 ` H.J. Lu
2021-09-17 2:47 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-17 2:59 ` H.J. Lu
2021-09-17 3:36 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-17 3:42 ` H.J. Lu
2021-09-17 3:44 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-17 3:44 ` Florian Weimer
2021-09-17 3:51 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-16 18:03 ` Florian Weimer
2021-09-16 22:14 ` H.J. Lu
2021-09-17 2:58 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-17 3:46 ` Florian Weimer
2021-09-17 4:00 ` Florian Weimer
2021-09-17 4:12 ` [PATCH] ld.so: Remove DL_RO_DYN_SECTION H.J. Lu
2021-09-17 6:54 ` David Abdurachmanov
2021-09-17 9:01 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-09-17 15:40 ` H.J. Lu
2021-10-14 12:36 ` [PATCH] ld.so: Handle read-only dynamic section gracefully [BZ #28340] Maciej W. Rozycki
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