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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>,
	Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>, Doug Evans <dje@google.com>,
	"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>,
	"binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: vdso handling
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 02:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140320015950.GB13347@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A78C989F6D9628469189715575E55B230AAB701F@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com>

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.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-20  2:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-10 13:05 Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-12  7:17 ` Alan Modra
2014-03-12 11:31   ` Mike Frysinger
2014-03-12 17:34   ` Doug Evans
2014-03-12 20:23     ` Cary Coutant
2014-03-13  1:01       ` Alan Modra
2014-03-13  8:25         ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-13  9:48           ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-13 10:07           ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-13 10:46             ` Pedro Alves
2014-06-01 20:32               ` Samuel Bronson
2014-06-06 12:45                 ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-13 13:13             ` Alan Modra
2014-03-13  9:52         ` Mark Wielaard
2014-03-13 13:03           ` Alan Modra
2014-03-13 14:38             ` Mark Wielaard
2014-03-13 14:59             ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-13 15:04               ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-13 15:26                 ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-13 23:53                   ` Alan Modra
2014-03-18 15:14                     ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-18 23:10                       ` Alan Modra
2014-03-19  8:11                         ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-19  8:31                         ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-19 12:04                           ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-20  2:00                           ` Alan Modra [this message]
2014-03-21 15:55                             ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-26  9:32                               ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-19 12:03                         ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-20  1:33                           ` Alan Modra
2014-03-21  8:10                             ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-21 15:48                             ` Pedro Alves

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