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Re: [PATCH][BZ #13601] Retry read in ld.so if the entire ELF header is not read in

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Cc: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:09:59 -0400
Subject: Re: [PATCH][BZ #13601] Retry read in ld.so if the entire ELF header is not read in
References: <20121019201444.06c09192@spoyarek>

On Friday 19 October 2012 10:44:44 Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We currently assume that the operation to read in the DSO in
> open_verify always reads in the entire ELF header.  This assumption is
> wrong since the read syscall is free to return smaller chunks of data
> and we ought to continue reading if that happens.  Attached patch does
> exactly that.  I have verified that there are no regressions resulting
> from this patch on x86_64 F-16, but I don't have a way to verify that
> the split read works.  OK to commit?
> 
> Regards,
> Siddhesh
> 
> ChangeLog:
> 
> 	* elf/dl-load.c (open_verify): Retry read if the entire ELF
> 	header is not read in.

changelog entry should have [BZ #13601] (see other entries in the file for an 
example), and you need to update the fixed bug list in the NEWS file.
-mike

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