Re: Synthetic symbol leak in in elf_x86_64_get_synthetic_symtab and elf_read_minimal_symbols

[Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>]

On 17-08-11 08:30:21, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >
> > We can only safely do this, but .name is leaked for x86_64.  Other
> > tools using bfd, like objdump, nm, and gprof may have this issue too.
> > I'll ask binutils people on asymbol allocation and de-allocation.
> >
> 
> This is:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21943
> 

I opened it :)

> i386 and x86-64 get_synthetic_symtab don't know if @plt should
> be added to symbol name for a PLT entry.  The first pass checks
> if @plt is needed and extra space is allocated in the second pass.
> We can assume @plt is needed and waste some space if it isn't.

Do you plan to fix it?

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Yao (齐尧)