https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28685
--- Comment #2 from Evgeny Vereshchagin <evvers at ya dot ru> --- > Should we try to handle unaligned access in the xlateto functions? > Those functions make use of a lot of tricky macros, which depend on the > types passed in. > > Or should we fix the called (dwfl_segment_report_module) to only pass > correctly aligned buffers to the xlateto function? > I think it depends on how libelf is supposed to be used. If callers are expected to pass correctly aligned buffers it seems dwfl_segment_report_module should be fixed. But it seems that callers can sometimes assume that it should be fine to pass unaligned data. For example, (even though it has nothing to do with the xlateto functions) in one of libbpf issues it was pointed out that "I don't see anywhere the requirement that bytes passed to the elf_memory() should be aligned, so this does seem like libelf bug." -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
