rawhide report: 20080130 changes

[Tomáš Smetana]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:59:16 -0800 (PST)
Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> wrote:

> > This was caused by the update to file-4.23.
> 
> This was an upstream code change between 4.21 and 4.23, for which
> there is no proper explanation I can find.  Also, it wasn't changed
> for 64-bit ELF files.  This change should be reverted upstream.
> 
> In file-4.23/src/readelf.c, file_tryelf was changed to check e_type
> and call doshn only for ET_EXEC and ET_DYN files.  It really ought to
> just call it for any type except ET_CORE, without listing the
> individual ones, like it used to do.  It is also perfectly fine to
> call dophn_exec for any file with e_phnum != 0, without checking its
> type other than for ET_CORE. The change was probably meant to call
> dophn_exec for ET_DYN too, which 64-bit still does not do.  You'd get
> that just by not checking the type. It would also be less error prone
> not to duplicate the logic for 32/64. Instead, it can just call a
> shared function with the values from e_* fields.

Sorry.  It's my fault.  I'll try to fix this ASAP.

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Tomáš Smetana
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