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vdso handling

Pedro Alves palves@redhat.com
Fri Mar 21 15:55:00 GMT 2014 
On 03/20/2014 01:59 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, and I was just assuming it didn't, hence my "just trust the
headers" push before.

I'm now thinking that we'll need pseudo-sections from program
headers anyway, so I'd suggest going in that direction, leaving
the add-symbol-file-from-memory command's intention generic,
and leave revisiting how gdb retrieves the vdso itself off of
memory for another day.

-- 
Pedro Alves
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