By adding following objects:
bench/mem-memset-x86-64-asm.o
bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o
the x86_64 perf binary ended up with executable stack.
The reason was that above objects are assembler sourced and are 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 objects, with all
flags disabled, thus omiting those objects from linker stack flags decision.
Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783570
Reported-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328100848-5630-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
[ committer note: Remaining bits after what was already added to perf/urgent ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
#define Lmemset_c globl memset_c; memset_c
#define Lmemset_c_e globl memset_c_e; memset_c_e
#include "../../../arch/x86/lib/memset_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