Re: [PATCH] perf x86: Fix perf to use non-executable stack, again

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:03:50PM +0200, Mathias Krause wrote:

SNIP

> >> 1.7.10.4
> >>
> >
> > hum, how about fixing this once and for all.. ;-)
> > please check attached patch, thanks
> 
> Yeah, I thought about this option too but declined it for two reasons:
> 1/ The kernel sources should provide good quality examples, even for
> usage outside of the kernel. Imagine somebody taking the memcpy
> implementation for his own project but not copying the LDFLAGS. That
> would make his code have an executable stack while with the .GNU-stack
> marker in the assembler file it won't.

that 'somebody' should check/know better ;-) but ok, fair enough

> 2/ What if somebody tries to add/link code to perf that makes use of
> nested functions? That'll make perf fail as the trampoline code
> generated by gcc won't be executable due to the enforced
> non-executable stack by -Wl,-z,noexecstack.

I guess in that case he would change the Makefile as well?

anyway I have no objection for leaving that code in assembly
objects, but I suggest we use the global option as well to
prevent any future surprise..

or insert test case for perf's executable stack to 'perf test'

thanks,
jirka