Bug 156342

Summary:	eu-strip mangles separate debuginfo with relocation sections
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Roland McGrath <roland>
Component:	elfutils	Assignee:	Roland McGrath <roland>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	jturner, kanderso
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Reopened
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2006-0354	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2006-08-10 18:28:22 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	156341
Bug Blocks:	156343, 181409, 189114

Description Roland McGrath 2005-04-29 03:23:43 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #156341 +++

Description of problem:

When eu-strip writes separate debuginfo from an ET_REL object such as a kernel
module (.ko file), it doesn't fix up the relocs referring to section symbols
removed from the symbol table.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.106-3

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install kernel-debuginfo package.
2. Try to use foo.ko.debug.
3. See bad relocs.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

This is a blocker for SystemTAP.

Comment 1 Roland McGrath 2005-05-09 08:23:20 UTC

This is fixed upstream/for Fedora (Bug #156341).
Needs backport fix or perhaps just upgrade of elfutils.

Comment 2 Roland McGrath 2005-05-26 01:24:52 UTC

The RHEL4 eu-strip actually just uses the binutils objcopy/strip.
The binutils strip-to-debug works differently and the debuginfo produced should
be fine for systemtap.

Comment 3 Jay Turner 2005-06-21 18:32:13 UTC

Removing from proposed list.

Comment 4 Roland McGrath 2005-08-02 01:40:29 UTC

Turns out I was wrong.  I confused myself trying to make sense of the insane
elfutils multi-stream errata situation in RHEL.  In fact, the elfutils being
used for RHEL4 builds is the real non-stub one, and eu-strip is the real one
with this bug rather than the binutils wrapper.

Comment 10 Roland McGrath 2005-10-10 21:03:56 UTC

This is an unrelated bug.  This error message is never the failure mode of the
eu-strip issue.

Comment 11 Roland McGrath 2005-10-10 21:12:42 UTC

As long as the buildroots don't change, this is not an issue for RHEL4.

Comment 17 Roland McGrath 2006-04-21 00:11:26 UTC

0.97.1-3 should fix this.

Comment 20 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-08-10 18:28:22 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0354.html