Re: [RFC][PATCH] linux-2.6.2-rc2_vsyscall-gtod_B1.patch

[Jamie Lokier <jamie _at_ xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Prelink ATM doesn't take VDSO into account at all and surely it would
> be best if it did not have to.  For example if VDSO is randomized, userspace
> has no control over its placement like it has for shared libraries
> (if DSO base is NULL, kernel randomizes, if non-NULL (usually means
> prelinked), then does not randomize unless the binary is PIE).

Randomisation of vDSO and randomisation of PIE, or non-PIE objects
which don't get mapped where you intended all break prelinking.  In
this regard vDSO is no different to any other library.

I agree that any uses of randomisation tend to break prelinking, and
so it's not reasonable to depend solely on prelinking.

-- Jamie
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