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From 4d3339de1fe3cbf7b05487fdb6cadd7267950948 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:45:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 05/21] libelf/xc_dom_load_elf_symtab: Do not use "syms" uninitialised

xc_dom_load_elf_symtab (with load==0) calls elf_round_up, but it
mistakenly used the uninitialised variable "syms" when calculating
dom->bsd_symtab_start.  This should be a reference to "elf".

This change might have the effect of rounding the value differently.
Previously if the uninitialised value (a single byte on the stack) was
ELFCLASS64 (ie, 2), the alignment would be to 8 bytes, otherwise to 4.

However, the value is calculated from dom->kernel_seg.vend so this
could only make a difference if that value wasn't already aligned to 8
bytes.

This is part of the fix to a security issue, XSA-55.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
---
 tools/libxc/xc_dom_elfloader.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_dom_elfloader.c b/tools/libxc/xc_dom_elfloader.c
index afecded..0fc35e3 100644
--- a/tools/libxc/xc_dom_elfloader.c
+++ b/tools/libxc/xc_dom_elfloader.c
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static int xc_dom_load_elf_symtab(struct xc_dom_image *dom,
         hdr = xc_dom_malloc(dom, size);
         if ( hdr == NULL )
             return 0;
-        dom->bsd_symtab_start = elf_round_up(&syms, dom->kernel_seg.vend);
+        dom->bsd_symtab_start = elf_round_up(elf, dom->kernel_seg.vend);
     }
 
     memcpy(hdr + sizeof(int),
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