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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] Relocate VDSO ELF headers to match mapped
	location with COMPAT_VDSO
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> In addition to Roland's remarks about missing symbol table relocation, I
> would also assume section headers, if present, should be relocated.

Yes, and also the .symtab as well as .dynsym just in case one ever has one
(though I think they are built stripped now, it's not hard to check sh_type
for SHT_SYMTAB and call the same routine that works from DT_SYMTAB).


Thanks,
Roland