On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 02:13:06AM +0000, Brian Mak wrote: > On Feb 19, 2025, at 12:38 PM, Brian Mak <makb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote > > > 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. > > I did scratch up something for this to fix up the program header > ordering, but it seems eu-stack is still broken, even with the fix. GDB > continues to work fine with the fix. Okay, thanks for testing this! > Given that there's no known utilities that get fixed as a result of the > program header sorting, I'm not sure if it's worth taking the patch. > Maybe we can just proceed with the sysctl + sorting if the core dump > size limit is hit, and leave it at that. Thoughts? Yeah, I like that this will automatically kick on under the condition where the coredump will already be unreadable by some tools. And having the sysctl means it can be enabled for testing, etc. -Kees -- Kees Cook
