Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:44:07 -0700 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, vmlinux.lds: Page-Align end of ..page_aligned sections |
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:34:48AM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote: > From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> > > Align the end of the .bss..page_aligned and .data..page_aligned section > on page-size too. Otherwise the linker might place other objects on the > page of the last ..page_aligned object. This is inconsistent with other > objects in those sections, which all have their own page.
What problem was actually encountered? (i.e. why is it a problem for the other data to be in the page of the page-aligned data? shouldn't those data have their own, separate, alignment hint?)
-- Kees Cook
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