Kees, Kees Cook <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:34:48AM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote: >> From: Joerg Roedel <[email protected]> >> >> Align the end of the .bss..page_aligned and .data..page_aligned section >> on page-size too. Otherwise the linker might place other objects on the >> page of the last ..page_aligned object. This is inconsistent with other >> objects in those sections, which all have their own page. > > What problem was actually encountered? (i.e. why is it a problem for the > other data to be in the page of the page-aligned data? shouldn't those > data have their own, separate, alignment hint?)
See: lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Thanks, tglx
