Re: [PATCH] x86-64: fix vDSO build

[Boris Ostrovsky <ostr.lkml@gmail.com>]

On 07/03/2014 10:34 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Certain ld versions (observed with 2.20.0) put an empty .rela.dyn
> section into shared object files, breaking the assumption on the number
> of sections to be copied to the final output. Simply discard any empty
> SHT_REL and SHT_RELA sections to address this.

Tested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>


>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> ---
>   arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h |    3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> --- 3.16-rc3/arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h
> +++ 3.16-rc3-x86-vdso-build/arch/x86/vdso/vdso2c.h
> @@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ static void BITSFUNC(copy_section)(struc
>   	uint64_t flags = GET_LE(&in->sh_flags);
>   
>   	bool copy = flags & SHF_ALLOC &&
> +		(GET_LE(&in->sh_size) ||
> +		 (GET_LE(&in->sh_type) != SHT_RELA &&
> +		  GET_LE(&in->sh_type) != SHT_REL)) &&
>   		strcmp(name, ".altinstructions") &&
>   		strcmp(name, ".altinstr_replacement");
>   
>
>
>
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