Bug 105825

Summary:	.note.SuSE conflicts with .note.ABI-tag
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Jörg Sonnenberger <joerg>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Michael Matz <matz>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Jörg Sonnenberger 2005-08-19 12:58:01 UTC

The SuSE specfic .note.SuSE section has an ELF note type of 1, which conflicts
with the already assigned .note.ABI-tag. ELF parsers working entirely on the
note type can be confused by this. The solution is choosing a different type,
but I don't know if there is anyone responsible for keeping a list of known IDs.

Comment 1 Michael Matz 2005-08-22 06:05:44 UTC

Fixed in the next Beta.  FYI the .note.SuSE section now has this layout: 
 
       .p2align 2 
       .long 1f - 0f           /* name length */ 
       .long 3f - 2f           /* data length */ 
       .long 0x45537553        /* note type ("SuSE" in little endian) */ 
0:     .asciz "SuSE"           /* vendor name */ 
1: 
       .p2align 2 
2:                             /* Data */ 
       .byte NOTE_VERSION      /* Version of following data */ 
       .byte PROD_TYPE         /* product type (box, sles, nld, whatever) */ 
       .byte PROD_MAJOR        /* product version */ 
       .byte PROD_MINOR        /* product minor version */ 
3: 
       .p2align 2              /* pad out section */