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SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/02] Elf: Align elf notes properly
David Miller wrote:
> We should be OK with the elf note header since n_namesz, n_descsz, and
> n_type are 32-bit types even on Elf64. But for the contents embedded
> in the note, I am not convinced that there are no potential issues

PT_NOTE segments are not generally mmaped directly, nor are they
generally very large. There should be no problem for a note-using
program to load/copy the notes into memory with appropriate alignment.
I guess a lot of the contents of core elf notes are register dumps and
so on, so debuggers must be already dealing with this.

J
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