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From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Lindsay <alexlindsay239@gmail.com>,
	GDB <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Synthetic symbol leak in in elf_x86_64_get_synthetic_symtab and elf_read_minimal_symbols
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170811154542.GK8039@1170ee0b50d5> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOoG9JCky0uuoBe+_DUpVbGz3Ww2cBX1GSb1Nw5kByutaQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 17-08-11 08:30:21, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >
> > We can only safely do this, but .name is leaked for x86_64.  Other
> > tools using bfd, like objdump, nm, and gprof may have this issue too.
> > I'll ask binutils people on asymbol allocation and de-allocation.
> >
> 
> This is:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21943
> 

I opened it :)

> i386 and x86-64 get_synthetic_symtab don't know if @plt should
> be added to symbol name for a PLT entry.  The first pass checks
> if @plt is needed and extra space is allocated in the second pass.
> We can assume @plt is needed and waste some space if it isn't.

Do you plan to fix it?

-- 
Yao (齐尧)


  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-11 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-07 15:19 Alex Lindsay
2017-08-11  9:27 ` Yao Qi
2017-08-11 15:07   ` Alex Lindsay
2017-08-11 15:31   ` H.J. Lu
2017-08-11 15:46     ` Yao Qi [this message]
2017-08-11 16:44       ` H.J. Lu
2017-08-11 21:20         ` Alex Lindsay
2017-08-17 11:00           ` Yao Qi
2017-08-17 12:31             ` Philippe Waroquiers
2017-08-17 17:42               ` Pedro Alves
2017-08-17 22:32                 ` [PATCH] Plug line_header leaks (Re: Synthetic symbol leak in in elf_x86_64_get_synthetic_symtab and elf_read_minimal_symbols) Pedro Alves

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