From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stronger ELF sanity checks v2
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:13:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Ah7Iy-0000NJ-00@neptune.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1eaqw-6Dk-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:50:12 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel:
> ld.so performs itself some tests, supplementing the tests in the kernel.
> This is enough to catch ill-formed programs which might cause problems.
Not everybody is using glibc, ld.so implementations vary and it's
probable that not all do really check much.
I agree that the kernel should only check values that it really uses,
though. The other checks could be optional (CONFIG_WHATEVER) and/or
only lead to debugging messages if they fail.
--
Ciao,
Pascal
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2004-01-15 13:13 ` Pascal Schmidt [this message]
2004-01-13 1:55 Jesper Juhl
2004-01-13 3:32 ` Aaron Lehmann
2004-01-13 10:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-16 16:08 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-16 19:55 ` Jesse Pollard
2004-01-16 21:36 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-13 17:35 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-01-13 19:54 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-15 7:43 ` Ulrich Drepper
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