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Re: [PATCH] x86: Generate PLT relocations for -z now


On 05/09/2017 04:55 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
i don't think plt should be considered to be part of the dso abi,
so removing plt relocs should be safe (making a GOT-indirect call
is a valid optimization, since plt is only there for lazy binding
which is an optimization too, gcc can change plt relocs to noplt
ones without -fno-plt so relying on it was never safe).

Sorry, the PLT stubs are for more than just lazy binding. They are also used by the LD_AUDIT facility. We haven't deprecated that, so we need to keep supporting it in some way, I think.

Alexander Monakov pointed out to me that ld audit could be fixed
in principle to work with GOT-indirect calls e.g. by generating
its entry point trampolines on the fly.

I think that's true (as long as the existing relocations are expressive enough). libffi already does that. But it has some implications for restricted environments which do not allow JIT. We could have some generic precompiled stub code as part of a file and map that as needed (with a data mapping right in front of it, containing the parameters), but I'd rather avoid that complexity.

Thanks,
Florian


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