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Subject: Re: [patch] Fix false warning: section .gnu.liblist not found in ...  [rediffed]
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Hi,
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only a technical rediff.
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On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:49:29 +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
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Hi,
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post-7.0 GDB started to print many false warnings on prelink-ed system:
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$ ./gdb -nx -ex r echo
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...
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Reading symbols from /bin/echo...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/bin/echo.debug...
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warning: section .gnu.liblist not found in /usr/lib/debug/bin/echo.debug
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warning: section .gnu.conflict not found in /usr/lib/debug/bin/echo.debug
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done.
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done.
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Starting program: /bin/echo
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warning: section .gnu.liblist not found in /usr/lib/debug/bin/echo.debug
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warning: section .gnu.conflict not found in /usr/lib/debug/bin/echo.debug
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warning: section .gnu.liblist not found in /usr/lib/debug/bin/echo.debug
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warning: section .gnu.conflict not found in /usr/lib/debug/bin/echo.debug
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warning: section .gnu.liblist not found in /usr/lib/debug/bin/echo.debug
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warning: section .gnu.conflict not found in /usr/lib/debug/bin/echo.debug
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These sections are from prelink and they are not present in the *.debug files.
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It is formally a regression by:
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commit 3bfec189bb0fa1a2a44f1645dd68a9572e7a841c
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2010-01-07  Tristan Gingold  <gingold@adacore.com>
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	* symfile.c (build_section_addr_info_from_objfile): New function.
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	(symbol_file_add_separate): Don't use offsets from objfile but
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	built an addr info.
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But I think would be unavoidable even for the unification of PIC+PIE handling.
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Found no usable section flag differences for .gnu.liblist vs. for example
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.text so used just the section name for the exception.
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.gnu.liblist/.gnu.conflict related dumps:
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executable:
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Section Headers:
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  [Nr] Name              Type            Address          Off    Size   ES Flg Lk Inf Al
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  [ 6] .gnu.liblist      GNU_LIBLIST     00000000004006b8 0006b8 000028 14   A 28   0  4
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  [ 7] .gnu.conflict     RELA            00000000004006e0 0006e0 0001c8 18   A  5   0  8
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Program Headers:
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  Type           Offset   VirtAddr           PhysAddr           FileSiz  MemSiz   Flg Align
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  LOAD           0x000000 0x0000000000400000 0x0000000000400000 0x005254 0x005254 R E 0x200000
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Dynamic section at offset 0x52c8 contains 24 entries:
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  Tag        Type                         Name/Value
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 0x000000006ffffef9 (GNU_LIBLIST)        0x4006b8
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 0x000000006ffffdf7 (GNU_LIBLISTSZ)      40 (bytes)
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 0x000000006ffffef8 (GNU_CONFLICT)       0x4006e0
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 0x000000006ffffdf6 (GNU_CONFLICTSZ)     456 (bytes)
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library:
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Section Headers:
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  [Nr] Name              Type            Address          Off    Size   ES Flg Lk Inf Al
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  [74] .gnu.liblist      GNU_LIBLIST     0000000000000000 249940 000014 14     75   0  4
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No regressions on {x86_64,x86_64-m32,i686}-fedora12-linux-gnu.
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Thanks,
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Jan
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2010-03-01  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
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	* symfile.c (addr_info_make_relative): New variable sect_name, use it.
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	Do not warn on ".gnu.liblist" and ".gnu.conflict".
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--- a/gdb/symfile.c
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+++ b/gdb/symfile.c
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@@ -597,7 +597,8 @@ addr_info_make_relative (struct section_addr_info *addrs, bfd *abfd)
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   for (i = 0; i < addrs->num_sections && addrs->other[i].name; i++)
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     {
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-      asection *sect = bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, addrs->other[i].name);
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+      const char *sect_name = addrs->other[i].name;
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+      asection *sect = bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, sect_name);
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       if (sect)
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 	{
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@@ -614,8 +615,16 @@ addr_info_make_relative (struct section_addr_info *addrs, bfd *abfd)
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 	}
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       else
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 	{
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-	  warning (_("section %s not found in %s"), addrs->other[i].name,
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-		   bfd_get_filename (abfd));
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+	  /* These two sections are intentionally loaded into memory from
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+	     the DYNAMIC segment and so they have both SEC_ALLOC and SEC_LOAD
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+	     set in the main executable (not in the library files).  They
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+	     are not present in the separate debug info file, though.  */
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+
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+	  if (!(strcmp (sect_name, ".gnu.liblist") == 0
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+		|| strcmp (sect_name, ".gnu.conflict") == 0))
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+	    warning (_("section %s not found in %s"), sect_name,
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+		     bfd_get_filename (abfd));
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+
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 	  addrs->other[i].addr = 0;
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 	  /* SECTINDEX is invalid if ADDR is zero.  */
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