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24.4; temacs startup failure when both PT_PAX and XATTR_PAX flags are enabled in Linux

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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4; temacs startup failure when both PT_PAX and XATTR_PAX
 flags are enabled in Linux
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:39:02 +0100

Forwarding Gentoo bug reports https://bugs.gentoo.org/497498 and
https://bugs.gentoo.org/526948 :

On a GNU/Linux system with grsecurity/PaX enabled Linux kernel,
temacs startup will fail when both CONFIG_PAX_PT_PAX_FLAGS and
CONFIG_PAX_XATTR_PAX_FLAGS are enabled:

   if test "no" = "yes"; then \
     rm -f bootstrap-emacs; \
     ln temacs bootstrap-emacs; \
   else \
     ./temacs --batch --load loadup bootstrap || exit 1; \
     test "X/sbin/paxctl" = X || /sbin/paxctl -zex emacs; \
     mv -f emacs bootstrap-emacs; \
   fi
   /bin/sh: line 7:  1591 Killed                  ./temacs --batch --load
   loadup bootstrap
   Makefile:815: recipe for target 'bootstrap-emacs' failed
   make[1]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Error 1
   make[1]: Leaving directory
   '/var/tmp/portage/app-editors/emacs-24.4/work/emacs-24.4/src'
   Makefile:382: recipe for target 'src' failed
   make: *** [src] Error 2

The problem is that paxctl(1) sets the "e" flag ("do not emulate
trampolines") by default for ELF binaries, but setfattr(1) doesn't.
While in principle both settings of the flag would be OK for our case,
Linux (the kernel) refuses to run the binary if the PT_PAX and
XATTR_PAX flags are inconsistent with one another.

Adding the "e" flag also to setfattr fixes this. Patch will follow.

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