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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Marian Marinov <mm@1h.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Pondering per-process vsyscall disablement
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 13:05:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5388E499.6080101@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUhZp+edRCx2SEzuJup0HWhV5WSiheCiZWuUjVueTJHfQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/30/2014 01:00 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> Do the flags go in the ELF loader or in the executable we're running?
> Or both (and, if both, do we and them or or them)?
> 
> I think the interpreter makes a little more sense in general: for the
> most part, use of vsyscalls is a property of the runtime environment,
> not of the program being run.  But maybe this is naive.
> 

They go into each object which becomes part of the running program, i.e.
executable, dynamic libraries, and dynamic linker.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-30 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-22 23:04 Pondering per-process vsyscall disablement Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-23  2:44 ` Marian Marinov
     [not found]   ` <537EB60E.40204-108MBtLGafw@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-23 16:40     ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]       ` <CALCETrWgtQCRiHt+am8+DoOMVvTuxy05AB6zzg3iAheGs13L6A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-28 21:45         ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]           ` <538658EE.8030809-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-30 20:00             ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-30 20:05               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
     [not found]                 ` <5388E499.6080101-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-30 20:11                   ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]                     ` <CALCETrX9s7xJRddB26ZiyjMEGbupbDj2qDHhio=80XSQ+staDA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-30 20:20                       ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]                         ` <5388E814.1080504-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-30 20:35                           ` Andy Lutomirski

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