tree fa3fb6e60c3d59fee7980aed07b530bfc6e3bdf5
parent e49b2460a40208d0c50922f898b58fdafa40eca0
author Shawn Walker-Salas <shawn.walker@oracle.com> 1440627881 -0700
committer Aram Hăvărneanu <aram@mgk.ro> 1441396869 +0000

cmd/go: fix Go buildid reading on Solaris

TestNoteReading fails on Solaris with linkmode=external due to some
assumptions made about how ELF .note sections are written by some
linkers.

On current versions of Solaris and older derivatives, SHF_ALLOC is
intentionally ignored for .note sections unless the .note section is
assigned to the text segment via a mapfile.  Also, if .note sections
are assigned to the text segment, no PT_NOTE program header will be
created thwarting Go's attempts at attempting to quickly find the
.note.

Furthermore, Go assumes that the relevant note segment will be placed
early in the file while the Solaris linker currently places the note
segment last in the file, additionally thwarting Go's optimisation
attempts that read only the first 16KB of the file to find the
buildid.

The fix is to detect when the note section is outside of the first
16KB of the file and then fallback to additionally reading that
section of the file.  This way, in future versions of Solaris when
this linking behaviour is changed, the fast path will always succeed
and we'll only be slower if it fails; likewise, any other linker that
does this will also just work.

Fixes #12178

Change-Id: I61c1dc3f744ae3ad63938386d2ace8a432c0efe1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/14210
Run-TryBot: Aram Hăvărneanu <aram@mgk.ro>
Reviewed-by: Aram Hăvărneanu <aram@mgk.ro>