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SubjectRe: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: fix PIE load with randomization disabled
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On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:35 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 12/09/2013 01:44 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:39 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>>> On 12/09/2013 01:03 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> No, please don't do that. Normally, PIE has zero load address and kernel
>>>> can load it anywhere. There are multiple reasons why PIE has non-zero
>>>> load address. Saying you need to load a program above 4GB under x86-64,
>>>> you can't do that with normal dynamic executable. PIE with non-zero load
>>>> address is the only way to do that on x86-64.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why does it have to be PIE?
>>>
>>
>> x86-64 small model is limited to 4GB in size. You can't build
>> a dynamic executable in small model larger than 4GB.
>>
>> There are medium and large models. But they are slower than
>> small models as well as small models in PIE. Also there are
>> no glibc run-times for medium and large models.
>>
>
> Compiling for the small PIC model shouldn't automatically mean
> generating a PIE (ET_DYN) executable, though (and if those are
> inherently linked, that is a fundamental bug IMNSHO.)

PIE uses PIC. But GCC has -fPIE and -fPIC. They aren't
the same. You build PIE with

1. Compile with -fPIE.
2. Link with -pie.

--
H.J.


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