-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > Ralf, > > We started stack inside page randomization through commit > 941091024ef0f2f7e09eb81201d293ac18833cc8 but it currently does nothing > usefull because ELF_PLATFORM is not defined on MIPS (see > fs/binfm_elf.c, create_elf_tables() for details). > > I tried several times to get information on lkml about that dependency > but unfortunately I got no answer. > > I'm not sure how ELF_PLATFORM is used by ld.so and I don't think it's > a good idea to define it just for enabling stack randomization. > > What do you think ? > > thanks > Franck > I think you mean this in specific: "/* This yields a string that ld.so will use to load implementation specific libraries for optimization. This is more specific in intent than poking at uname or /proc/cpuinfo. For the moment, we have only optimizations for the Intel generations, but that could change... */ #define ELF_PLATFORM (NULL)" Right? - -- _______________________________________ Mr Markus Gothe Software Engineer Phone: +46 (0)13 21 81 20 (ext. 1046) Fax: +46 (0)13 21 21 15 Mobile: +46 (0)73 718 72 80 Diskettgatan 11, SE-583 35 Linköping, Sweden www.27m.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG+msl6I0XmJx2NrwRCBm0AJ99yMRx1Kkre9bPa3y9lkV+xHSvVwCcC6qP 5AoYOLF7HLEOPrnr8fIhBuk= =+uD/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
