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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: fix PIE load with randomization disabled
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:43:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52A8C05D.9050006@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOqLwm3JdY6qbY=V3EKMZFku9rQB6Th91PbSvY=yCYaZug@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/11/2013 10:21 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:49 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> On 12/11/2013 05:41 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>
>>> When -Ttext-segment=XXX is used, the program is expected to
>>> load at XXX, regardless -pie is used or not.
>>>
>>
>> "Expected to" by whom?  I think that is at the very best a matter of
>> interpretation.
> 
> # ld --help
> ...
>  -Ttext-segment ADDRESS      Set address of text segment
> ...
> 

I feel a very circular argument going around here... what do the actual
user(s) of this option expect?

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-11 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-09 15:50 H.J. Lu
2013-12-09 20:57 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-12-09 21:03   ` H.J. Lu
2013-12-09 21:13     ` Jiri Kosina
2013-12-09 21:47       ` H.J. Lu
2013-12-09 21:49         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-09 21:52           ` H.J. Lu
2013-12-09 21:53             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-09 21:59               ` H.J. Lu
2013-12-09 22:01                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-09 22:03                   ` H.J. Lu
2013-12-11 13:36                     ` Jiri Kosina
2013-12-11 13:41                       ` H.J. Lu
2013-12-11 17:49                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-11 18:21                           ` H.J. Lu
2013-12-11 19:43                             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-12-11 20:02                               ` H.J. Lu
2013-12-09 21:51         ` Jiri Kosina
2013-12-09 21:39     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-09 21:44       ` H.J. Lu
2013-12-09 23:35         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-09 23:53           ` H.J. Lu
2013-12-10  0:37             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-10  0:41               ` H.J. Lu

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