Design goals of the dynamic loader.

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 08:19:53AM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> We have some validations in place already, so it is not clear to me
> what the criteria for selecting them is and at present it seems
> arbitrary.  If there is a clear guideline for what kind of sanity

OK, so I took another look and the only validation that seems kinda
related is the one that detects the wrong ELF class.  That too is not
specifically a protection against invalid ELF; just not somthing this
linker runs.  So I guess it is easy to claim that ld.so assumes that
the ELF is valid.  I withdraw my patch if the general idea of allowing
the linker to do arbitrary things or crashing on invalid ELF is
acceptable.

Siddhesh