[PATCH] readelf: Save and dump the original section header values

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 23:49:26 GMT 2026


On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 10:30:14PM +0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> validate_section_info clears the garbage values in the section header
> to avoid crash later.  Save and dump the original section header values
> to make the garbage values in the section header visible when dumping
> section headers.

I think this would be better done the other way around.  ie. have a
Elf_Internal_Shdr **sane_section_headers that is initialised to point
at entries in section_headers, with sane_section_headers[i] allocated
as necessary when needing to correct a bogus header.

-- 
Alan Modra


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