RFA: 8173941: SA does not work if executable is DSO

[David Holmes]

Hi Yasumasa,

On 15/02/2017 9:38 AM, Yasumasa Suenaga wrote:
> * I added serviceability-dev
>
> Hi all,
>
> JDK-8173941 has been approved to push to jdk8u repo.
> I added noreg label to JBS. Could you help me to push it?

An 'appropriate noreg label' has to follow the guidelines here:

http://openjdk.java.net/guide/changePlanning.html#noreg

I changed it to noreg-hard and added an explanatory comment. I will push 
this to jdk8u/dev for you.

David
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>
> Thanks,
>
> Yasumasa
>
>
> 2017/02/15 午前8:09 "Rob McKenna" <rob.mckenna at oracle.com>:
>
>> Approved, but please add an appropriate noreg label to the bug. Also
>> please work with the serviceability team to get this pushed.
>>
>>     -Rob
>>
>> On 14/02/17 10:16, Yasumasa Suenaga wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> JBS:
>>>   https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8173941
>>>
>>> 9 changeset:
>>>   http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs/hotspot/rev/b3d95edd4467
>>>
>>> 9 review:
>>>   http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/serviceability-dev/
>> 2017-February/020968.html
>>>   http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/serviceability-dev/
>> 2017-February/020973.html
>>>
>>> In modern Linux e.g. Fedora 25, executables are built as DSO for
>> security [1].
>>> java command in OpenJDK which is provided by distribution is also DSO.
>>> However, SA does not work with DSO executables.
>>>
>>> Currently, OpenJDK 8 in Fedora 25 is built as DSO.
>>> So I want to contribute this patch to jdk8u.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not a committer of jdk8u. So I need a sponsor.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Yasumasa
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#PIE
>>