PATCH] Properly handle note sections and segments

[H.J. Lu]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 9:22 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 6:17 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 3:49 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> gABI specifies that PT_NOTE alignment should be aligned to 4 bytes
>>> for 32-bit objects and to 8 bytes for 64-bit objects.  But on Linux,
>>> .note.ABI-tag and .note.gnu.build-id notes are always aligned to 4
>>> bytes.  We allow either 4 byte or 8 byte alignments.
>>>
>>> OK for master?
>>>
>>> H.J.
>>> ---
>>>         * readelf.c (process_notes_at): Return FALSE if alignment of
>>>         note section isn't 4 nor 8 bytes.
>>
>> This patch is incorrect.  Here is the updated patch, which also fixes
>> incorrect note section alignment:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22492
>>
>
> This updated patch also fixed:
>
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22490
>
> and dumps CORE PT_NOTE segments.
>
> OK for master?

Here is the updated patch against master branch.


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H.J.
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