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Commit 86e1e054 authored by Michael Forney's avatar Michael Forney Committed by Josh Poimboeuf
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objtool: Update section header before relocations



The libelf implementation from elftoolchain has a safety check in
gelf_update_rel[a] to check that the data corresponds to a section
that has type SHT_REL[A] [0]. If the relocation is updated before
the section header is updated with the proper type, this check
fails.

To fix this, update the section header first, before the relocations.
Previously, the section size was calculated in elf_rebuild_reloc_section
by counting the number of entries in the reloc_list. However, we
now need the size during elf_write so instead keep a running total
and add to it for every new relocation.

[0] https://sourceforge.net/p/elftoolchain/mailman/elftoolchain-developers/thread/CAGw6cBtkZro-8wZMD2ULkwJ39J+tHtTtAWXufMjnd3cQ7XG54g@mail.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Forney <mforney@mforney.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210509000103.11008-2-mforney@mforney.org
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