[PATCH] Properly compute offsets of note descriptor and next note [BZ #22370]

[H.J. Lu]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:24 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 3:03 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>> On Nov 12 2017, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Data after Elf64_Nhdr is the "name" field which is a 4-byte string, "GNU".
>>>> There is no misalignment.
>>>
>>> That's not what your patch does.  You are aligning both the name length
>>> and the data length to a 8 byte boundary, making the note size
>>> unaligned.
>>>
>>
>> You are right.  Both glibc and binutils get this wrong.  I opened a
>> binutils bug:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22444
>>
>> I will fix it first and take care of glibc next.
>>
>
> Here is the glibc path.
>
> Any comments?
>

Any comments or objections?


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H.J.