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Re: [HELP NEEDED] elf: Add elf/check-wx-segment, a test for the presence of WX segments

From: John David Anglin <dave dot anglin at bell dot net>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, John David Anglin <danglin at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Helge Deller <deller at gmx dot de>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft dot net>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 21:20:48 -0500
Subject: Re: [HELP NEEDED] elf: Add elf/check-wx-segment, a test for the presence of WX segments
References: <87tv3buirr.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>

On 2020-02-28 5:07 a.m., Florian Weimer wrote:
> Would you please help me to add proper comments to the xfails for the
> hppa and sparc ports?
>
> Currently, both (sets of) targets have an writable and executable load
> segment.  Is this because the lack of secure PLT support, like
> originally on POWER?
Currently, the PLT is executable on hppa because it contains an executable trampoline
used during lazy binding.
> The new test passes everywhere else.
>
Attached are test results without your change and with your change, respectively.  Also attached
is the output from the new test.  The test results were:

XFAIL: elf/check-wx-segment
original exit status 1

Dave

-- 
John David Anglin  dave.anglin@bell.net

Attachment: test-20200228.log
Description: Text document

Attachment: test-20200301.log
Description: Text document

Attachment: check-wx-segment.out
Description: Text document

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