3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> commit 7a0153ee15575a4d07b5da8c96b79e0b0fd41a12 upstream. By adding following objects: bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o the x86_64 perf binary ended up with executable stack. The reason was that above object are assembler sourced and is missing the GNU-stack note section. In such case the linker assumes that the final binary should not be restricted at all and mark the stack as RWX. Adding section ".note.GNU-stack" definition to mentioned object, with all flags disabled, thus omiting this object from linker stack flags decision. Problem introduced in: $ git describe ea7872b v2.6.37-rc2-19-gea7872b Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783570 Reported-by: Clark Williams <[email protected]> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Cc: Corey Ashford <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> [ committer note: Backported fix to perf/urgent (3.3-rc2+) ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S +++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S @@ -1,2 +1,8 @@ #include "../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S" +/* + * We need to provide note.GNU-stack section, saying that we want + * NOT executable stack. Otherwise the final linking will assume that + * the ELF stack should not be restricted at all and set it RWX. + */ +.section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
