Hi All,

I've a simple program called empty.c.

$ cat empty.c

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    return 0;
}

$ cat empty410.s

        .file   "empty.c"
        .text
        .p2align 4,,15
.globl main
        .type   main, @function
main:
        xorl    %eax, %eax
        ret
        .size   main, .-main
        .ident  "GCC: (GNU) 4.1.0 20050922 (experimental)"
        .section        .note.GNU-stack,"", at progbits

binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2 produces for this code empty .data and .bss sections:

Program Header:
    PHDR off    0x00000034 vaddr 0x08048034 paddr 0x08048034 align 2**2
         filesz 0x000000c0 memsz 0x000000c0 flags r-x
  INTERP off    0x000000f4 vaddr 0x080480f4 paddr 0x080480f4 align 2**0
         filesz 0x0000002a memsz 0x0000002a flags r--
    LOAD off    0x00000000 vaddr 0x08048000 paddr 0x08048000 align 2**12
         filesz 0x00000123 memsz 0x00000123 flags r-x
    LOAD off    0x00000124 vaddr 0x08049124 paddr 0x08049124 align 2**12
         filesz 0x00000000 memsz 0x00000000 flags rw-
   STACK off    0x00000000 vaddr 0x00000000 paddr 0x00000000 align 2**2
         filesz 0x00000000 memsz 0x00000000 flags rwx
PAX_FLAGS off    0x00000000 vaddr 0x00000000 paddr 0x00000000 align 2**2
         filesz 0x00000000 memsz 0x00000000 flags --- 2800

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .interp       0000002a  080480f4  080480f4  000000f4  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  1 .text         00000003  08048120  08048120  00000120  2**4
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  2 .data         00000000  08049124  08049124  00000124  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  3 .bss          00000000  08049124  08049124  00000124  2**2
                  ALLOC

and /lib/klibc-*.so interpeter works fine.

binutils-2.16.91.0.3 doesn't produce useless empty sections:

Program Header:
    PHDR off    0x00000034 vaddr 0x08048034 paddr 0x08048034 align 2**2
         filesz 0x000000a0 memsz 0x000000a0 flags r-x
  INTERP off    0x000000f4 vaddr 0x080480f4 paddr 0x080480f4 align 2**0
         filesz 0x0000002a memsz 0x0000002a flags r--
    LOAD off    0x00000000 vaddr 0x08048000 paddr 0x08048000 align 2**12
         filesz 0x00000123 memsz 0x00000123 flags r-x
   STACK off    0x00000000 vaddr 0x00000000 paddr 0x00000000 align 2**2
         filesz 0x00000000 memsz 0x00000000 flags rwx
PAX_FLAGS off    0x00000000 vaddr 0x00000000 paddr 0x00000000 align 2**2
         filesz 0x00000000 memsz 0x00000000 flags --- 2800

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .interp       0000002a  080480f4  080480f4  000000f4  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  1 .text         00000003  08048120  08048120  00000120  2**4
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE

...and klibc's loader doesn't reach crt0.o:_start().

It receives sigsegv from kernel. The load_elf_binary() calls
padzero() for nonexistent .bss mapping.

Attached workaround fixes problem. Could anybody look into this?

Regards,
Paweł.

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