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* XFAIL check-execstack for MIPS [committed]
@ 2016-11-04 16:43 Joseph Myers
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From: Joseph Myers @ 2016-11-04 16:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
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This patch marks the check-execstack test as expected to fail for
MIPS, with a comment referencing previous RFC discussion of the
changes that would be needed to support non-executable stacks on MIPS.

Tested for MIPS (all 24 ABIs).  Committed.

2016-11-04  Joseph Myers  <joseph@codesourcery.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile [$(subdir) = elf]
	(test-xfail-check-execstack): New variable.

diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile
index c6729c1..bca11d3 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Makefile
@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ sysdep-dl-routines += dl-static
 
 sysdep_routines += dl-vdso
 endif
+
+# Supporting non-executable stacks on MIPS requires changes to both
+# the Linux kernel and glibc.  See
+# <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-01/msg00567.html> and
+# <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-01/msg00719.html>.
+test-xfail-check-execstack = yes
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(subdir),stdlib)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

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