MFC r339431:
In r78161 the lookup_set linker method was introduced which optionally returns the section start and stop locations as well as a count if the caller asks for them. There was only one out-of-file consumer of count which did not actually use it and hence was eliminated in r339407. In r194784 parse_dpcpu(), and in r195699 parse_vnet() (a copy of the former) started to use the link_elf_lookup_set() interface internally also asking for the count. count is computed as the difference of the void **stop - void **start locations and as such, if the absoulte numbers (stop - start) % sizeof(void *) != 0 a round-down happens, e.g., **stop 0x1003 - **start 0x1000 => count 0. To get the section size instead of "count is the number of pointer elements in the section", the parse_*() functions do a count *= sizeof(void *). They use the result to allocate memory and copy the section data into the "master" and per-instance memory regions with a size of count. As a result of count possibly round-down this can miss the last bytes of the section. The good news is that we do not touch out of bounds memory during these operations (we may at a later stage if the last bytes would overflow the master sections). Given relocation in elf_relocaddr() works based on the absolute numbers of start and stop, this means that we can possibly try to access relocated data which was never copied and hence we get random garbage or at best zeroed memory. Stop the two (last) consumers of count (the parse_*() functions) from using count as well, and calculate the section size based on the absolute numbers of stop and start and use the proper size for the memory allocation and data copies. This will make the symbols in the last bytes of the pcpu or vnet sections be presented as expected.
PR: 232289