From 7a0153ee15575a4d07b5da8c96b79e0b0fd41a12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Olsa Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 18:54:06 -0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix perf stack to non executable on x86_64 By adding following objects: bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o the x86_64 perf binary ended up with executable stack. The reason was that above object are assembler sourced and is missing the GNU-stack note section. In such case the linker assumes that the final binary should not be restricted at all and mark the stack as RWX. Adding section ".note.GNU-stack" definition to mentioned object, with all flags disabled, thus omiting this object from linker stack flags decision. Problem introduced in: $ git describe ea7872b v2.6.37-rc2-19-gea7872b Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783570 Reported-by: Clark Williams Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328100848-5630-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa [ committer note: Backported fix to perf/urgent (3.3-rc2+) ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S index a57b66e..185a96d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S +++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S @@ -1,2 +1,8 @@ #include "../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S" +/* + * We need to provide note.GNU-stack section, saying that we want + * NOT executable stack. Otherwise the final linking will assume that + * the ELF stack should not be restricted at all and set it RWX. + */ +.section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits -- 2.7.4