According to the System V Application Binary Interface specification [1]
the sections holding a symbol table, SHT_SYMTAB and SHT_DYNSYM, have to
have sh_info set to "One greater than the symbol table index of the last
local symbol (binding STB_LOCAL)". Current code converting PE images to
ELF files does not do that and readelf complains in following way:
...
Section Headers:
[Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al
[ 0] NULL 00000000 000000 000000 00 0 0 0
[ 1] .text PROGBITS 00000000 000034 0014d4 00 AX 0 0 4
[ 2] .data PROGBITS 00000000 001508 000040 00 WA 0 0 32
[ 3] .rdata PROGBITS 00000000 001548 0006b8 00 A 0 0 4
[ 4] .module_license PROGBITS 00000000 001c00 000010 00 0 0 4
[ 5] .bss NOBITS 00000000 000000 000008 00 WA 0 0 4
[ 6] .moddeps PROGBITS 00000000 001c10 000010 00 0 0 4
[ 7] .modname PROGBITS 00000000 001c20 000008 00 0 0 4
[ 8] .rel.text REL 00000000 001c28 0008c8 08 11 1 4
[ 9] .rel.data REL 00000000 0024f0 000040 08 11 2 4
[10] .rel.rdata REL 00000000 002530 000070 08 11 3 4
[11] .symtab SYMTAB 00000000 0025a0 0001d0 10 12 0 4
[12] .strtab STRTAB 00000000 002770 000237 00 0 0 1
...
Symbol table '.symtab' contains 29 entries:
Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
0: 00000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND
readelf: Warning: local symbol 0 found at index >= .symtab's sh_info value of 0
1: 0000144a 0 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 1 grub_mod_init
readelf: Warning: local symbol 1 found at index >= .symtab's sh_info value of 0
2: 000014aa 0 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 1 grub_mod_fini
readelf: Warning: local symbol 2 found at index >= .symtab's sh_info value of 0
3: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 1 .text
readelf: Warning: local symbol 3 found at index >= .symtab's sh_info value of 0
4: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 2 .data
readelf: Warning: local symbol 4 found at index >= .symtab's sh_info value of 0
5: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 5 .bss
readelf: Warning: local symbol 5 found at index >= .symtab's sh_info value of 0
6: 00000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 3 .rdata
readelf: Warning: local symbol 6 found at index >= .symtab's sh_info value of 0
7: 00000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT UND grub_dma_get_phys
8: 00000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT UND grub_cs5536_write_msr
9: 00000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT UND grub_dma_free
...
Let's fix it...
[1] https://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/2012-12-31/contents.html
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Alec Brown <alec.r.brown@oracle.com>
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