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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 20/27] x86/cet/shstk: ELF header parsing of CET
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:12:57 +0200
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On 07/11/2018 12:26 AM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> +	/*
> +	 * PT_NOTE segment is small.  Read at most
> +	 * PAGE_SIZE.
> +	 */
> +	if (note_size > PAGE_SIZE)
> +		note_size = PAGE_SIZE;

That's not really true.  There are some huge PT_NOTE segments out there.

Why can't you check the notes after the executable has been mapped?

Thanks,
Florian