[PATCH] elf: Account for glibc-hwcaps/ prefix in _dl_important_hwcaps

Szabolcs Nagy szabolcs.nagy@arm.com
Wed Dec 23 15:24:02 GMT 2020


The 12/23/2020 12:57, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I tested this on aarch64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu,
> powerp64le-linux-gnu, s390x-linux-gnu, x86_64-linux-gnu.  I cannot
> reproduce the original crash, though.  I'm quite confident that I have
> found the actual problem though, and this change is not just papering
> over the buffer size computation by computing a larger (but still wrong)
> value.

it fixes the crash i was seeing. thanks

it looks good to me.

> 
> ---
>  elf/dl-hwcaps.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/elf/dl-hwcaps.c b/elf/dl-hwcaps.c
> index 000e3c0eb9..6c394714d8 100644
> --- a/elf/dl-hwcaps.c
> +++ b/elf/dl-hwcaps.c
> @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ _dl_important_hwcaps (const char *glibc_hwcaps_prepend,
>  
>    /* Each hwcaps subdirectory has a GLIBC_HWCAPS_PREFIX string prefix
>       and a "/" suffix once stored in the result.  */
> +  hwcaps_counts.maximum_length += strlen (GLIBC_HWCAPS_PREFIX) + 1;
>    size_t total = (hwcaps_counts.count * (strlen (GLIBC_HWCAPS_PREFIX) + 1)
>  		  + hwcaps_counts.total_length);
>  
> 
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