[Bug ld/29411] ld warning on SPARC: LOAD segment with RWX permissions

[ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld.DE]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29411

--- Comment #4 from Rainer Orth <ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld.DE> ---
> --- Comment #2 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
> Hi Rainer,
>
>   The warning is intended to alter users to the fact that a segment has been
> created with all three permission flags set - something that is very tempting
> to attackers looking to inject code into a binary.
>
>   Disabling the warning for specific target configurations is possible 
> however.
>  There is a section of code at the start of ld/configure.tgt to do this.  
>
>   I have gone ahead and added the sparc-solaris targets to the list of targets
> for which the warning should be supressed by default.  (It can still be 
> enabled
> via a command line option, if the user so desires).

I missed this, although I saw the initial discussion about this warning
fly by.  However, this is not a Solaris/SPARC-only issue: I first saw it
on Linux/sparc64.  Given the SPARC and SPARC V9 psABIs, I guess it
affects at least all SPARC/ELF targets (if not SPARC in general).

Thanks.
        Rainer

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