Re: kern/51346: rump's module autoload incompatable with paxctl m&a

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Sep 28, 10:50am, dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost (David Holland) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/51346: rump's module autoload incompatable with paxctl m

| The following reply was made to PR kern/51346; it has been noted by GNATS.
| 
| From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
| To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
| Cc: 
| Subject: Re: kern/51346: rump's module autoload incompatable with paxctl m&a
| Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:46:30 +0000
| 
|  On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 07:55:01AM +0000, Paul Goyette wrote:
|   > Forward to audit trail:
|   >  
|   > : needs mprotect disable since it loads kernel code and relocates it.
|   >
|   > : don't disable PIE
|  
|  so it still needs +a in PAXCTL_FLAGS?

It is PIE code, so it should not (unless there are bugs and we get random
coredumps depending on where the code loaded). Then again we should fix
the bugs instead.

christos