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From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
To: elfutils-devel@sourceware.org
Cc: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>,
	Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@laiskiainen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] elfclassify tool
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190719134341.GA26346@altlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ce73f5ebf076570ddc0c1dcd57a07ec39b7555b0.camel@klomp.org>

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On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 02:47:09PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
[...]
> +static bool
> +is_shared (void)
> +{
> +  if (!is_loadable ())
> +    return false;
> +
> +  /* The ELF type is very clear: this is an executable.  */
> +  if (elf_type == ET_EXEC)
> +    return false;
> +
> +  /* If the object is marked as PIE, it is definitely an executable,
> +     and not a loadlable shared object.  */
> +  if (has_pie_flag)
> +    return false;
> +
> +  /* Treat a DT_SONAME tag as a strong indicator that this is a shared
> +     object.  */
> +  if (has_soname)
> +    return true;

I'm not sure DT_SONAME is a reliable indicator.

I've seen many cases of DT_SONAME being erroneously applied to 
non-libraries, e.g. lib.so was used as soname in openjdk executables.


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ldv

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-19 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-12 15:38 Florian Weimer
2019-04-15 15:39 ` Mark Wielaard
2019-04-16 11:38   ` Florian Weimer
2019-04-18 11:17     ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-19 12:47       ` Mark Wielaard
2019-07-19 13:43         ` Dmitry V. Levin [this message]
2019-07-19 14:21           ` Mark
2019-07-19 18:35             ` Dmitry V. Levin
2019-07-19 21:00               ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-19 21:23                 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2019-07-19 21:36                   ` Mark Wielaard
2019-07-19 22:57                     ` Dmitry V. Levin
2019-07-20 21:51                       ` Mark Wielaard
2019-07-25 22:39                         ` [PATCH] elfclassify: Add --library classification Mark Wielaard
2019-07-26 22:53                           ` Dmitry V. Levin
2019-07-26 23:04                         ` [PATCH] elfclassify tool Dmitry V. Levin
2019-07-27 11:54                           ` Mark Wielaard
2019-07-20 21:40         ` Mark Wielaard
2019-07-22 15:55         ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-26 22:11           ` Mark Wielaard
2019-07-29  8:44             ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-29 14:24               ` Mark Wielaard
2019-08-11 23:38                 ` Mark Wielaard
2019-08-12  8:14                   ` Florian Weimer
2019-08-12 15:18                     ` Mark Wielaard
2019-07-29  9:16             ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-29 14:34               ` Mark Wielaard
2019-07-29 14:38                 ` Florian Weimer
2019-08-13  9:44                   ` Mark Wielaard
2019-08-13 11:42                     ` Mark Wielaard
2019-08-14 20:46                       ` [PATCH] config/elfutils.spec.in: package eu-elfclassify Dmitry V. Levin
2019-08-15  7:33                         ` Mark Wielaard
2019-07-29  9:22             ` [PATCH] elfclassify tool Florian Weimer
2019-07-29 14:40               ` Mark Wielaard
2019-07-29 14:42                 ` Florian Weimer
2019-07-19 13:24     ` Mark Wielaard

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