GNU ld sometimes generates zero-sized PT_LOAD headers when running with the "-z separate-code" option. Let's not choke on such headers, we can just ignore them and move along.
@@ -260,6 +260,8 @@ void DynamicLoader::load_program_headers()
VERIFY(!tls_region.has_value());
tls_region = region;
} else if (region.is_load()) {
+ if (region.size_in_memory() == 0)
+ return;
load_regions.append(region);
if (region.is_executable()) {
text_regions.append(region);
@@ -230,12 +230,6 @@ bool validate_program_headers(const ElfW(Ehdr) & elf_header, size_t file_size, c
return false;
}
- if (program_header.p_memsz <= 0 && (program_header.p_type == PT_TLS || program_header.p_type == PT_LOAD)) {
- if (verbose)
- dbgln("Program header ({}) has invalid size in memory ({})", header_index, program_header.p_memsz);
- return false;
- }
-
if (elf_header.e_type != ET_CORE) {
if (program_header.p_type == PT_LOAD && program_header.p_align == 0) {
if (verbose)