From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
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Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/29] powerpc: Rename "notes" PT_NOTE to "note"
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:11:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201910110910.48270FC97@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191011082519.GI9749@gate.crashing.org>
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 03:25:19AM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 05:05:41PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > The Program Header identifiers are internal to the linker scripts. In
> > preparation for moving the NOTES segment declaration into RO_DATA,
> > standardize the identifier for the PT_NOTE entry to "note" as used by
> > all other architectures that emit PT_NOTE.
>
> All other archs are wrong, and "notes" is a much better name. This
> segment does not contain a single "note", but multiple "notes".
True, but the naming appears to be based off the Program Header name of
"PT_NOTE". Regardless, it is an entirely internal-to-the-linker-script
identifier, so I am just consolidating on a common name with the least
number of collateral changes.
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-11 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-11 0:05 [PATCH v2 00/29] vmlinux.lds.h: Refactor EXCEPTION_TABLE and NOTES Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 01/29] powerpc: Rename "notes" PT_NOTE to "note" Kees Cook
2019-10-11 6:00 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-10-11 8:25 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-10-11 16:11 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2019-10-11 16:25 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-10-15 16:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-15 17:36 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-29 21:15 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-30 1:01 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-04 8:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 02/29] powerpc: Remove PT_NOTE workaround Kees Cook
2019-10-11 6:07 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-10-11 16:09 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 03/29] powerpc: Rename PT_LOAD identifier "kernel" to "text" Kees Cook
2019-10-11 6:07 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 04/29] alpha: " Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 05/29] ia64: Rename PT_LOAD identifier "code" " Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 06/29] s390: Move RO_DATA into "text" PT_LOAD Program Header Kees Cook
2019-10-16 8:25 ` Heiko Carstens
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 07/29] x86: Restore "text" Program Header with dummy section Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 08/29] vmlinux.lds.h: Provide EMIT_PT_NOTE to indicate export of .notes Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 09/29] vmlinux.lds.h: Move Program Header restoration into NOTES macro Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 10/29] vmlinux.lds.h: Move NOTES into RO_DATA Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 11/29] vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RODATA with RO_DATA Kees Cook
2019-11-11 16:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-11-11 17:23 ` Kees Cook
2019-11-11 18:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-11-12 9:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-11-12 9:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-11-12 20:55 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 12/29] vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RO_DATA_SECTION " Kees Cook
2019-10-11 7:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 13/29] vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RW_DATA_SECTION with RW_DATA Kees Cook
2019-10-11 7:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 14/29] vmlinux.lds.h: Allow EXCEPTION_TABLE to live in RO_DATA Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 15/29] x86: Actually use _etext for end of text segment Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 16/29] x86: Move EXCEPTION_TABLE to RO_DATA segment Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 17/29] alpha: " Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 18/29] arm64: " Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 19/29] c6x: " Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:06 ` [PATCH v2 20/29] h8300: " Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:06 ` [PATCH v2 21/29] ia64: " Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:06 ` [PATCH v2 22/29] microblaze: " Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:06 ` [PATCH v2 23/29] parisc: " Kees Cook
2019-10-12 9:50 ` Helge Deller
2019-10-11 0:06 ` [PATCH v2 24/29] powerpc: " Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:06 ` [PATCH v2 25/29] xtensa: " Kees Cook
2019-10-14 7:41 ` Max Filippov
2019-10-11 0:06 ` [PATCH v2 26/29] x86/mm: Remove redundant &s on addresses Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:06 ` [PATCH v2 27/29] x86/mm: Report which part of kernel image is freed Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:06 ` [PATCH v2 28/29] x86/mm: Report actual image regions in /proc/iomem Kees Cook
2019-10-11 0:06 ` [PATCH v2 29/29] x86: Use INT3 instead of NOP for linker fill bytes Kees Cook
2019-10-16 8:28 ` [PATCH v2 00/29] vmlinux.lds.h: Refactor EXCEPTION_TABLE and NOTES Heiko Carstens
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