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

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Nov 24 14:46:00 GMT 2017


On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:04 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

I updated Linux Extensions to gABI to clarify alignments of NOTE section
and segments:

https://sourceware.org/ml/gnu-gabi/2017-q4/msg00003.html

I will check it in next week.


-- 
H.J.



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