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Re: RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers?

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On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> Linux has a handful of weird features that are only supported for
> backwards compatibility.  The big one is the x86_64 vsyscall page, but
> uselib probably belongs on the list, too, and we might end up with
> more at some point.
>
> I'd like to add a way that new programs can turn these features off.
> In particular, I want the vsyscall page to be completely gone from the
> perspective of any new enough program.  This is straightforward if we
> add a system call to ask for the vsyscall page to be disabled, but I'm
> wondering if we can come up with a non-syscall way to do it.
>
> I think that the ideal behavior would be that anything linked against
> a sufficiently new libc would be detected, but I don't see a good way
> to do that using existing toolchain features.
>
> Ideas?  We could add a new phdr for this, but then we'd need to play
> linker script games, and I'm not sure that could be done in a clean,
> extensible way.


The vsyscall page is mapped in the fixmap region, which is shared
between all processes.  You can't turn it off for an individual
process.

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RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar backwards-incompatibility  flags to ELF headers? Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-09-02 03:00 +0200
  Re: RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar  backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers? Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> - 2015-09-02 03:20 +0200
    Re: RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar  backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers? Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-09-02 04:30 +0200
  Re: RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar  backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers? Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 04:00 +0200
    Re: RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar  backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers? Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-09-02 04:30 +0200
      Re: RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar  backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers? Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 16:00 +0200
        Re: RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar  backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers? Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-09-02 16:10 +0200
  Re: [musl] RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar  backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers? Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> - 2015-09-02 05:00 +0200
    Re: [musl] RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar  backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers? Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-09-02 05:40 +0200
      Re: [musl] RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar  backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers? Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> - 2015-09-02 06:20 +0200
        Re: [musl] RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar  backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers? Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-09-02 06:40 +0200
          Re: [musl] RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar  backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers? Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> - 2015-09-02 07:00 +0200
            Re: [musl] RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar  backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers? Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-09-02 07:10 +0200
              Re: [musl] RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar  backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers? Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> - 2015-09-02 07:30 +0200
          Re: [musl] RFC: adding Linux vsyscall-disable and similar  backwards-incompatibility flags to ELF headers? Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 14:50 +0200

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