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Message-ID: <87a7556vo8.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:38:31 +0100 From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de> To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add REL_COPY size change detection * Rich Felker: > At the very least I think we ought to catch and error on the case > where def.sym->st_size>sym->st_size, since we can't honor it and > failure to honor it can produce silent memory corruption. I'm less > sure about what to do if def.sym->st_size<sym->st-size; this case > seems safe and might be desirable not to break (I vaguely recall an > intent that it be ok), but if you think there are reasons it's > dangerous I'm ok with disallowing it too. I'm having a hard time now > thinking of a reason it would really help to support that, anyway. Unfortunately the Mozilla NSS people disagree that size mismatches for global symbols are an ABI break. I don't know if this is relevant in the musl context, but it means that for glibc, we probably can't make it a hard error. I want to have better diagnostics for this in glibc, but the current warning (which is poorly worded at that) is in the architecture-specific code, and I got side-tracked when I tried to clean this up the last time.
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