Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Fri Sep 4 14:11:08 UTC 2015


On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 03:58:12PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 09/04/2015 03:49 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 
> > Clearly it is used by some programs, so it should be considered part of the
> > public API.  If it wasn't meant to be exported, it should not have been
> > exported.  The ld.so warning is only emitted if there is a copy relocation
> > against that symbol and the symbol has different size in the copy relocation
> > vs. the new size in the shared library.
> 
> Ugh, I forgot.
> 
> Will the process use the size from the shared library, or will the
> object be truncated, so that when the library tries to traverse the
> array (using its hard-coded size), it will read past the end of the
> allocated portion?

It copies the minimum of the two sizes.

	Jakub


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