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From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, laurent@vivier.eu
Subject: Re: qemu-x86_64, buster /sbin/ldconfig and setup_arg_pages (a mind dump)
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 08:10:54 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ff41cb9-8d7e-7013-a846-1a9a809bf6f5@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kwukmxr.fsf@linaro.org>

On 1/17/20 7:33 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> So what do we take away from this?
> 
>  * we need testcases to exercise the memory layout of dynamic binaries
>  * "special" dynamic binaries can break our careful memory layout
>  * I feel as though I've trodden on a nest of vipers
> 
> Does any of this track with you? What is different about ldconfig that
> breaks our memory placement?

We've been through this bug before, but never came to a resolution.  See

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1749393
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg04700.html


r~


      reply	other threads:[~2020-01-17 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-17 17:33 qemu-x86_64, buster /sbin/ldconfig and setup_arg_pages (a mind dump) Alex Bennée
2020-01-17 18:10 ` Richard Henderson [this message]

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