Bug 240519 - prelink should update .dynsym st_shndx fields, STT_SECTION st_values
Summary: prelink should update .dynsym st_shndx fields, STT_SECTION st_values
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: prelink
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-05-18 04:24 UTC by Roland McGrath
Modified: 2008-05-06 20:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-05-06 19:36:29 UTC
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Description Roland McGrath 2007-05-18 04:24:30 UTC
eu-elflint --gnu-ld complains about a prelinked ET_EXEC when it had .bss split
into .dynbss+.bss, because .dynsym symbols for bss symbols all refer to one
section.  Symbols that are now in .dynbss should have their st_shndx fields set
to the index of .dynbss.  This does not affect the dynamic linker, but does
leave the symbol table in a nonkosher state.  The same applies to .symtab in
unstripped binaries for prelink, I expect.  Similarly, the STT_SECTION symbols
for allocated sections that were moved around by prelink should have their
st_value's updated.  Some linkers have produced section symbols even in .dynsym,
so best to be thorough (or else edit the STT_SECTION and any other unreferenced
local symbols out entirely if you are doing that sort of thing in prelink). 
It's possible that some debugger consumer would like to use st_shndx and can be
confused by wrong indices, though most likely it's only elflint that cares.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 07:15:50 UTC
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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 19:36:28 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 3 Roland McGrath 2008-05-06 20:06:55 UTC
In the source it looks like this was fixed a while ago.


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