Roger Pau Monne writes ("[PATCH v2 for-4.8] libelf: fix symtab/strtab loading 
for 32bit domains"):
> Commit ed04ca introduced a bug in the symtab/strtab loading for 32bit
> guests, that corrupted the section headers array due to the padding
> introduced by the elf_shdr union.
> 
> The Elf section header array on 32bit should be accessible as an array of
> Elf32_Shdr elements, and the union with Elf64_Shdr done in elf_shdr was
> breaking this due to size differences between Elf32_Shdr and Elf64_Shdr.
> 
> Fix this by copying each section header one by one, and using the proper
> size depending on the bitness of the guest kernel. While there, also fix
> elf_parse_bsdsyms so that it takes into account the size of the elf_ehdr
> struct instead of the native Elf header size.
> 
> Reported-by: Brian Marcotte <marco...@panix.com>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>

Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>

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