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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:20:47 -0800
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/02] Elf: Align elf notes properly
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David Miller wrote:
> We should be OK with the elf note header since n_namesz, n_descsz, and
> n_type are 32-bit types even on Elf64.  But for the contents embedded
> in the note, I am not convinced that there are no potential issues

PT_NOTE segments are not generally mmaped directly, nor are they
generally very large.  There should be no problem for a note-using
program to load/copy the notes into memory with appropriate alignment. 
I guess a lot of the contents of core elf notes are register dumps and
so on, so debuggers must be already dealing with this.

    J
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