[PATCH] D14218: [ELF2] Implements -z relro: create an ELF "PT_GNU_RELRO" segment header in the object.

[Ismail Donmez via llvm-commits]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 6:18 PM, George Rimar via llvm-commits <
llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> grimar added a comment.
>
> In http://reviews.llvm.org/D14218#285384, @ruiu wrote:
>
> > This is probably naive but obligatory question. Is relro segments
> considered actually useful? How many projects are using this for what?
>
>
> For me it looks like its extremely useful for security. List of projects
> can be found here for example:
> http://tk-blog.blogspot.ru/2009/02/relro-not-so-well-known-memory.html
>
>
We (openSUSE), Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo etc are all using it for hardening.

Regards,
ismail
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