On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 09:34:31PM -0300, Geyslan G. Bem wrote: > The member 'e_ehsize' that holds the ELF header size is compared > with the elfhdr struct size. If not equal, goes out. > If 'e_phoff' holds 0 the object has no program header table, so > goes out. > Ensures the file being loaded has the correct data encoding, checking > 'e_ident[EI_DATA]' against 'ELF_DATA'. > > Besides the checks being in accordance with the ELF Specifications, > they increase the binary consistency reducing the use of malformed ones. This is completely misguided. We are allowed to reject such binaries, but what's the point of doing that? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
