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[Bug ld/26706] New: pad strings in .dynstr


From: woodard at redhat dot com
Subject: [Bug ld/26706] New: pad strings in .dynstr
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 21:10:41 +0000

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26706

            Bug ID: 26706
           Summary: pad strings in .dynstr
           Product: binutils
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ld
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: woodard at redhat dot com
  Target Milestone: ---

There are times where it is necessary to patch ELF files so that they have
correct paths to things. Most of the things that they want to be able to update
are in the .dynstr section e.g. RPATH and RUNPATH. It would be helpful if the
strings in .dynstr were padded with some additional space so that they could be
lengthened not just shortened or remain the same length. 

Evidently Solaris used to do this and it was helpful. 

Can we either make ld pad these strings when it makes a binary by default or
have an option to pad out these strings when linking so that we have some more
room in the .dynstr section should we need to update paths.

I do not know the best amount of padding. I bet that an extra 256 or 512 bytes
per entry would be sufficient for all but the most unusual use cases.

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