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Commit 98702562 authored by Lingutla Chandrasekhar's avatar Lingutla Chandrasekhar Committed by Rishabh Bhatnagar
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elf: Add elf headers helpers support 



ELF header format is been used in multiple places,
add helper functions to get section, program headers, and
string table section details of the elf header.

Change-Id: Ib67b6f25a3a9c32305710eae4ad66bea511d6799
Signed-off-by: default avatarLingutla Chandrasekhar <clingutla@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRishabh Bhatnagar <rishabhb@codeaurora.org>
parent 72969e94

include/linux/elf.h

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@@ -45,6 +45,39 @@ extern Elf64_Dyn _DYNAMIC []; 


#endif



/* Generic helpers for ELF use */

/* Return first section header */

static inline struct elf_shdr *elf_sheader(struct elfhdr *hdr)

{

	return (struct elf_shdr *)((size_t)hdr + (size_t)hdr->e_shoff);

}



/* Return idx section header */

static inline struct elf_shdr *elf_section(struct elfhdr *hdr, int idx)

{

	return &elf_sheader(hdr)[idx];

}



/* Return first program header */

static inline struct elf_phdr *elf_pheader(struct elfhdr *hdr)

{

	return (struct elf_phdr *)((size_t)hdr + (size_t)hdr->e_phoff);

}



/* Return idx program header */

static inline struct elf_phdr *elf_program(struct elfhdr *hdr, int idx)

{

	return &elf_pheader(hdr)[idx];

}



/* Retunr section's string table header */

static inline char *elf_str_table(struct elfhdr *hdr)

{

	if (hdr->e_shstrndx == SHN_UNDEF)

		return NULL;

	return (char *)hdr + elf_section(hdr, hdr->e_shstrndx)->sh_offset;

}



/* Optional callbacks to write extra ELF notes. */

struct file;

struct coredump_params;