[committed] exec-stack warning for test which wants executable stacks

Jeff Law jeffreyalaw@gmail.com
Mon Apr 25 15:30:59 GMT 2022



On 4/25/2022 9:26 AM, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
>   Just FYI - I am also looking at adding in another warning.  This 
> time for
>   when the linker creates a PT_LOAD segment which has all of the RWX 
> flags
>   set.  At the moment my testing seems to show that it only causes 
> problems
>   when a custom linker script is used that defines its own program 
> headers
>   and does not provide separate headers for code and data.
That also sounds quite reasonable.    My biggest worry would be the 
embedded targets which have their own linker scripts -- but like the 
executable stack warning, I think you should go for it and we'll deal 
with the fallout.

jeff


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