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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>
Cc: Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>, Doug Evans <dje@google.com>,
	"Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>,
	"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>,
	"binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: vdso handling
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140313130322.GA3384@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394704336.11818.115.camel@bordewijk.wildebeest.org>

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:52:16AM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 11:31 +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > It wouldn't
> > help in the vdso case anyway, since the problem there is that you only
> > have the loaded part of the original ELF file.
> 
> Note that the vdso is often special, compared to other ELF dsos, because
> the loaded part is just the complete ELF image in memory. Since they are
> very simple they will just have one PT_LOAD at offset zero and if the
> image is smaller than the page size then the whole file is just simply
> mapped into memory completely. So by fetching the vdso ELF image from
> remote memory you should be able to get the section headers and the
> not-allocated sections too.

Yes, but if the vdso does not fit in a page (which incidentally is
inferred by program header p_align), then you may lose the section
headers.  I was assuming this was the case.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-13 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-10 13:05 Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-12  7:17 ` Alan Modra
2014-03-12 11:31   ` Mike Frysinger
2014-03-12 17:34   ` Doug Evans
2014-03-12 20:23     ` Cary Coutant
2014-03-13  1:01       ` Alan Modra
2014-03-13  8:25         ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-13  9:48           ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-13 10:07           ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-13 10:46             ` Pedro Alves
2014-06-01 23:45               ` Samuel Bronson
2014-06-06 12:45                 ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-13 13:13             ` Alan Modra
2014-03-13  9:52         ` Mark Wielaard
2014-03-13 13:03           ` Alan Modra [this message]
2014-03-13 14:38             ` Mark Wielaard
2014-03-13 14:59             ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-13 15:04               ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-13 15:26                 ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-13 23:53                   ` Alan Modra
2014-03-18 15:14                     ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-18 23:10                       ` Alan Modra
2014-03-19  8:11                         ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-19  8:31                         ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-19 12:04                           ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-20  2:00                           ` Alan Modra
2014-03-21 15:55                             ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-26  9:32                               ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-19 12:03                         ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-20  1:33                           ` Alan Modra
2014-03-21  8:10                             ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-03-21 15:48                             ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-28  6:13                               ` Alan Modra
2014-03-28 13:38                                 ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-28 23:00                                   ` Alan Modra
2014-04-01 13:46                                     ` Pedro Alves
2014-04-02  1:50                                       ` Alan Modra
2014-04-02  8:05                                         ` Metzger, Markus T
2014-04-02  8:04                                 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2014-04-03  1:06                                   ` Alan Modra
2014-04-03  1:46                                     ` Alan Modra

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