Re: [PATCH] lkdtm: add test for executing .rodata

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Feb 17 2016 - 16:46:16 EST


On Wednesday 17 February 2016 22:44:12 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 February 2016 13:49:04 Kees Cook wrote:
> > }
> >
> > +static void __attribute__((__section__(".rodata,\"a\",@progbits#")))
> > +do_nothing_rodata(void)
> > +{
> > + return;
> > +}
> > +
> > static void do_nothing(void)
> > {
> >
>
> I think this also needs to be marked "noinline" to ensure that the
> function does not get eliminated. I've seen clang do that on
> execute_location() recently and submitted a patch for that.

Nevermind, this gets passed by reference into execute_location(),
so it's enough if that is marked noinline, but do_nothing_rodata
needs no such annotation.

Arnd