[PATCH] D62179: [llvm-readelf] - Allow dumping of the .dynamic section even if there is no PT_DYNAMIC header.
George Rimar via Phabricator via llvm-commits
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Mon May 27 01:54:40 PDT 2019
grimar reclaimed this revision.
grimar added a comment.
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.
In D62179#1516667 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D62179#1516667>, @rupprecht wrote:
> In D62179#1515750 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D62179#1515750>, @grimar wrote:
>
> > I had to revert this one.
> > It broke the following tests in a different projects:
> > (My apologies that I did not notice that before posting on review)
> >
> > lld :: ELF/linkerscript/empty-tls.test
> > lld :: ELF/linkerscript/pt-interp.test
> > LLVM :: Object/invalid.test
> > LLVM :: tools/yaml2obj/dynamic-section-raw-content.yaml
> >
> >
> > The error is the same, it is: "Virtual address is not in any segment"
> > and is coming from `here: https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Object/ELF.cpp#L559
> >
> > which is called from a place where dynamic tags are parsed:
> > https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/tools/llvm-readobj/ELFDumper.cpp#L1497
> > ...
> > We probably can make this error not critical, i.e. skip the dynamic entries that
> > requires other segnemts, but I am not sure it really worth the efford and
> > additional code complication.
> >
> > I am abandodning this patch.
>
>
> I've seen this same error internally when switching from GNU readelf to llvm-readelf and reading core files with it, and I'm interested in fixing that. GNU readelf does what you mention -- prints a warning and moves on. I think that's useful; we should be able to use tools to read partial information from a corrupt/incomplete file.
OK. I'll resurrect this one and take a look.
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