[PATCH] elflint: Add gnuld check when a NOBITS section falls inside a segment.

Mark Wielaard mjw at redhat.com
Mon Aug 17 13:36:24 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 00:16 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> gnuld has a really bad bug where it can place a NOBITS section inside
> a PT_LOAD segment. Normally that would not work. But it also makes sure
> that the contents of the file is all zeros. So in practice it is actually
> a PROGBITS section with all zero data. Except that other tools will think
> there is an unused gap in the ELF file after the NOBITS section.
> 
> Recognize and check this pattern in elflint when --gnu is given.

Updated https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/wiki/ElflintGNU and pushed to
master.


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