Re: vdso handling

Alan Modra
2014-03-20T02:00:11Z

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 08:29:47AM +0000, Metzger, Markus T wrote:
> Shouldn't the ehdr indicate that there are no sections in this case?

Nope. See my other email to Pedro.

> If we can't trust the image to contain everything that the ELF header
> describes, would it be safer to generate fake sections based on the
> program header? We already assume that the program header is
> contained in the image.

Yes, you're correct that it is wrong to assume program headers are
loaded. Even worse, the in-memory image doesn't even need to contain
the ELF file header.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM