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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lkdtm: add test for executing .rodata
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:44:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4143845.Jr27FPv8XS@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160216214904.GA23723@www.outflux.net>

On Tuesday 16 February 2016 13:49:04 Kees Cook wrote:
>  }
>  
> +static void __attribute__((__section__(".rodata,\"a\",@progbits#")))
> +do_nothing_rodata(void)
> +{
> +       return;
> +}
> +
>  static void do_nothing(void)
>  {
> 

I think this also needs to be marked "noinline" to ensure that the
function does not get eliminated. I've seen clang do that on
execute_location() recently and submitted a patch for that.

	Arnd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-17 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-16 21:49 [PATCH] lkdtm: add test for executing .rodata Kees Cook
2016-02-17  1:06 ` Laura Abbott
2016-02-17 20:29   ` Kees Cook
2016-02-17 21:06     ` Kees Cook
2016-02-18 10:32     ` PaX Team
2016-02-18 11:34       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-18 11:55         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-18 12:07         ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-18 12:46           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-02-18 20:04             ` Kees Cook
2016-02-18 21:27         ` PaX Team
2016-02-22 20:46           ` Kees Cook
2016-02-22 23:21             ` PaX Team
2016-02-23 20:53               ` Kees Cook
2016-02-23 22:00                 ` PaX Team
2016-02-23 22:02                   ` Kees Cook
2016-02-23 20:31             ` [kernel-hardening] " David Brown
2016-02-23 20:51               ` Kees Cook
2016-02-17 21:44 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-02-17 21:45   ` Arnd Bergmann

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