On Feb 19, 2025, at 11:52 AM, Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yeah, I think we need to make this a tunable. Updating the kernel breaks > elftools, which isn't some weird custom corner case. :P > > So, while it took a few months, here is a report of breakage that I said > we'd need to watch for[1]. :) > > Is anyone able to test this patch? And Brian will setting a sysctl be > okay for your use-case? Hi Kees, Yes, a sysctl tunable would be good here. I can test this patch in the next day or two. I will also scratch up a patch to bring us back into compliance with the ELF specifications, and see if that fixes the userspace breakage with elfutils, while not breaking gdb or rr. Thanks, Brian