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Re: Preventing preemption of 'protected' symbols in GNU ld 2.26 [aka should we revert the fix for 65248]
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>, Joe Groff <jgroff at apple dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:56:53 -0700
- Subject: Re: Preventing preemption of 'protected' symbols in GNU ld 2.26 [aka should we revert the fix for 65248]
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> So in the immediate term, if we drop the problem 65248 patch, we're back in
> a state where the DSO and the executable can have two different views of
> certain objects. In which case we really need a solution in place to flag
> that as an error, which is #1 in your list of mitigations.
>From program behavior perspective, there is nothing wrong with
my changes to ld, ld.so and GCC. The main drawback is my
changes make protected symbol pretty much useless in term
of faster access within the shared object. All these are due to
incompatibility between protected symbol and copy relocation.
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H.J.