On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 11:44 PM Dmitry Kozlyuk
<dmitry.kozl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Size of string constant symbol may be larger than its length
> measured up to NUL terminator. In this case pmdinfogen included padding
> bytes after NUL terminator in generated source, yielding incorrect code.
>
> Always trim string data to NUL terminator while reading ELF.
> It was already done for COFF because there's no symbol size.
>
> Bugzilla ID: 720
> Fixes: f0f93a7adfee ("buildtools: use Python pmdinfogen")
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozl...@gmail.com>Reproduced the issue described in bz on my (old) RHEL7 with clang 3.4.2. Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> Just to confirm my reading of the C version of pmdinfogen: the C version formats those symbols fine with printf %s. So there should be no need for a fix in stable branches, right? -- David Marchand
