[PATCH v3 16/21] scripts/sortextable: add support for ET_DYN binaries

Ard Biesheuvel
2016-01-11T13:22:51Z

Add support to scripts/sortextable for handling relocatable (PIE)
executables, whose ELF type is ET_DYN, not ET_EXEC. Other than adding
support for the new type, no changes are needed.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
---
scripts/sortextable.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/sortextable.c b/scripts/sortextable.c
index af247c70fb66..19d83647846c 100644
--- a/scripts/sortextable.c
+++ b/scripts/sortextable.c
@@ -266,9 +266,9 @@ do_file(char const *const fname)
break;
} /* end switch */
if (memcmp(ELFMAG, ehdr->e_ident, SELFMAG) != 0
- || r2(&ehdr->e_type) != ET_EXEC
+ || (r2(&ehdr->e_type) != ET_EXEC && r2(&ehdr->e_type) != ET_DYN)
|| ehdr->e_ident[EI_VERSION] != EV_CURRENT) {
- fprintf(stderr, "unrecognized ET_EXEC file %s\n", fname);
+ fprintf(stderr, "unrecognized ET_EXEC/ET_DYN file %s\n", fname);
fail_file();
}

@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ do_file(char const *const fname)
if (r2(&ehdr->e_ehsize) != sizeof(Elf32_Ehdr)
|| r2(&ehdr->e_shentsize) != sizeof(Elf32_Shdr)) {
fprintf(stderr,
- "unrecognized ET_EXEC file: %s\n", fname);
+ "unrecognized ET_EXEC/ET_DYN file: %s\n", fname);
fail_file();
}
do32(ehdr, fname, custom_sort);
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ do_file(char const *const fname)
if (r2(&ghdr->e_ehsize) != sizeof(Elf64_Ehdr)
|| r2(&ghdr->e_shentsize) != sizeof(Elf64_Shdr)) {
fprintf(stderr,
- "unrecognized ET_EXEC file: %s\n", fname);
+ "unrecognized ET_EXEC/ET_DYN file: %s\n", fname);
fail_file();
}
do64(ghdr, fname, custom_sort);
--
2.5.0