Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:20:47 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/02] Elf: Align elf notes properly |
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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.
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