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Bug 218860 - libelf doesn't reload section headers after update with ELF_C_WRITE
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Authored by eric_metricspace.net on Apr 24 2017, 11:15 PM.
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Summary

The libelf library in base doesn't reload section headers after clearing them when performing an elf_update with ELF_C_WRITE. This is because it fails to clear a flag indicating that the section headers have been loaded.

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Please upload a patch with context (-U99999) (or use arc).

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 24 2017, 11:27 PM

@emaste , @kaiw , any objection to committing this change?

In D10486#273287, @cem wrote:

@emaste , @kaiw , any objection to committing this change?

I have no objection, although I'd really like kaiw@ to comment

I pinged @kaiw by email requesting a look at this change.

Background on this (and the other related change): I ran into both issues implementing signelf. They caused anomalous bugs, and I tracked them down and fixed them. So they're definitely issues, and the fixes definitely work.

This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.