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authorNick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>2019-06-19 15:56:52 +0100
committerNick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>2019-06-21 13:04:02 +0100
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libctf: fix ctf_open endianness problems with raw CTF files
ctf_open (or, rather, ctf_fdopen, which underlies it) has several endianness problems, even though it was written after the endian-swapping code was implemented, so should have been endian-aware. Even though the comment right above the relevant check says that it wil check for CTF magic in any endianness, it only checks in the native endianness, so opening raw LE CTF files on BE, or vice-versa, will fail. It also checks the CTF version by hand, without ever endianness-swapping the header, so that too will fail, and is entirely redundant because ctf_simple_open does the job properly in any case. We have a similar problem in the next if block, which checks for raw CTF archives: we are checking in the native endianness while we should be doing a le64toh() on it to check in little-endian form only: so opening CTF archives created on the local machine will fail if the local machine is big-endian. Adding insult to injury, if ctf_simple_open then fails, we go on and try to turn it into a single-element CTF archive regardless, throwing the error away. Since this involves dereferencing null pointers it is not likely to work very well. libctf/ * ctf-open-bfd.c: Add swap.h and ctf-endian.h. (ctf_fdopen): Check for endian-swapped raw CTF magic, and little-endian CTF archive magic. Do not check the CTF version: ctf_simple_open does that in endian-safe ways. Do not dereference null pointers on open failure.
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2019-06-19 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
+ * ctf-open-bfd.c: Add swap.h and ctf-endian.h.
+ (ctf_fdopen): Check for endian-swapped raw CTF magic, and
+ little-endian CTF archive magic. Do not check the CTF version:
+ ctf_simple_open does that in endian-safe ways. Do not dereference
+ null pointers on open failure.
+
+2019-06-19 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
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* ctf-open.c (get_vbytes_common): Return the new slice size.
(ctf_bufopen): Flip the endianness of the CTF-section header copy.
Remember to copy in the CTF data when opening an uncompressed