Re: [PATCH v7 22/27] binfmt_elf: Extract .note.gnu.property from an ELF file

From: Florian Weimer
Date: Tue Jun 18 2019 - 11:55:15 EST


* Yu-cheng Yu:

> The kernel looks at only ld-linux. Other applications are loaded by ld-linux.
> So the issues are limited to three versions of ld-linux's. Can we somehow
> update those??

I assumed that it would also parse the main executable and make
adjustments based on that.

ld.so can certainly provide whatever the kernel needs. We need to tweak
the existing loader anyway.

No valid statically-linked binaries exist today, so this is not a
consideration at this point.

Thanks,
Florian