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

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

The following reply was made to PR kern/51346; it has been noted by GNATS.

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Subject: Re: kern/51346: rump's module autoload incompatable with paxctl m&a
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:56:40 -0400

 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