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From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Maciej Zenczykowski <maze@cela.pl>,
	Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanity checking
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:27:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073694475.6189.176.camel@nomade> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040109204150.A28436@infradead.org>

Le ven 09/01/2004 à 21:41, Christoph Hellwig a écrit :
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:20:53PM +0100, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
> > I think this points to an 'issue', if we're going to increase the checks
> > in the ELF-loader (and thus increase the size of the minimal valid ELF
> > file we can load, thus effectively 'bloating' (lol) some programs) we
> > should probably allow some sort of direct binary executable files [i.e.
> > header 'XBIN386\0' followed by Read/Execute binary code to execute by
> 
> Like binfmt_flat? :)

.. or even zflat. Not that I'm proud of it, but it can effectively
manage to produce rather compact executables :)

	Xav


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-10  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-09  2:19 [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanity checking Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09  2:27 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09  3:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-09  3:36   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-09  3:40     ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09 20:20       ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2004-01-09 20:41         ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-10  0:27           ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2004-01-10  2:27             ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2004-01-10  9:52               ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-10 13:41         ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-10 22:38           ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2004-01-10 22:45             ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-10 14:05         ` Willy Tarreau
2004-01-22 19:24         ` [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanitychecking Adrian Bunk
2004-01-09  3:36   ` [PATCH][RFC] invalid ELF binaries can execute - better sanity checking Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09  4:15   ` Anton Blanchard
2004-01-09 10:28 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-01-09 10:50   ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-09 18:08     ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-09 18:25       ` Jesper Juhl

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