Description of problem: I tried adding an rpath to a binary using patchelf. I got a "warning: working around a Linux kernel bug by creating a hole of 2097152 bytes". This should be fixed by the following upstream commit: https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/commit/c4deb5e9e1ce9c98a48e0d5bb37d87739b8cfee4 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): patchelf-0.8-5.fc24.x86_64 (the latest on F25) Looking at dist-git, the patchelf-0.9 packages in F26, F27 and Rawhide have the same issue. (The patch is not applied there either, and it is not part of the upstream release 0.9.) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try using patchelf --set-rpath on an executable. Actual results: A hole is created. Expected results: No hole is created. Additional info: Note that chrpath does not support adding rpath at all, so patchelf seems to be the only tool easily allowing that out there.
Created attachment 1332182 [details] patchelf-0.9-avoid-inflating-file-sizes.patch I backported the patch to 0.9 (see attachment), I was about to file a pull request for dist-git, but unfortunately, it fails the test suite on i686: "FAIL: set-interpreter-long.sh". It passes on x86_64, armv7hl, and s390x though. I have no idea why it doesn't work on i686.
I filed https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/issues/136 for the testsuite failure.
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