[klibc] klibc and executable stack

[H. Peter Anvin]

Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just wondering if klibc are planning on supporting the .note.GNU-stack
> section and all it entails ?

I don't see any reason to.

> On sort of a related topic - we have QA tests that checks if something
> have executable stack.  Klibc of course fails due to the many .S, and
> not passing --noexecstack to gas.  Adding this to
> EXTRA_KLIBC{C,A,LD}FLAGS fixes the issue for all the syscalls, crt0.o,
> interp.o and the .so, as well as all the static linked binaries are also
> fine.  All shared binaries though have executable stack, even with
> noexecstack passed to both gas and ld.  Anybody know if the way klibc
> shared binaries work needs executable stack ?

No, they don't.

However, whenever you pass another option to gas, then you have to put 
the appropriate protection in place just in case an older toolchain -- 
or another architecture -- doesn't support it.

	-hpa