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[PATCH] elf: Try not pointing empty PT_LOAD segment's offset past EOF
- From: Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey dot hu>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 17:22:13 +0100
- Subject: [PATCH] elf: Try not pointing empty PT_LOAD segment's offset past EOF
- Reply-to: balint at balintreczey dot hu
Hi,
Strip sometimes leaves file offset of empty PT_LOAD segment pointing
past end of file as observed on Ubuntu 19.10's gzip binary. This is
traditionally considered a non-issue as loaders tolerated that, but
WSL1's ELF loader does not run the gzip binary [1] due to this offset.
I have opened a bug [2] in bugzilla, but I was advised to send the
patch here, too.
Please consider accepting the patch. I believe this does not cause any
regression and it fixes ELF loading on WSL.
Thanks,
Balint
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4461
[2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25237
From 547345d59b5a1e682c0cb7dc7f3f29ec8c113122 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Balint Reczey <balint.reczey@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 23:58:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] elf: Try not pointing empty PT_LOAD segment's offset past EOF
While this did not cause problems in the past, it crashes WSL's ELF loader.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1843479
---
bfd/elf.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index 1aa2603ee8..e1a9a02eec 100644
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -5752,7 +5752,12 @@ assign_file_positions_for_load_sections (bfd *abfd,
|| (p->p_type == PT_NOTE && bfd_get_format (abfd) == bfd_core))
{
if (!m->includes_filehdr && !m->includes_phdrs)
- p->p_offset = off;
+ if (no_contents)
+ /* Try avoiding pointing past the EOF with this empty segment's
+ p_offset. */
+ p->p_offset = p->p_offset % maxpagesize;
+ else
+ p->p_offset = off;
else
{
file_ptr adjust;
--
2.17.1