Revert "elf: Properly compute offsets of note descriptor and next note"

This reverts commit 650444eb540f9fd85e821567a3f943b4bc41b8be.

With this patch, running the GDB test case gdb.base/auxv.exp is stuck in
an infinite loop, consuming memory to the point that it renders the
machine unusable. I am reverting it so we can take our time to
investigate while not killing all the developers' machines.

6 files changed, 12 insertions, 65 deletions

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 0395dcf6cca..55fe3b4e61e 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,18 +1,3 @@
-2017-11-24  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
-
-	PR binutils/22444
-	* elf.c (elf_read_notes): Add an argument for note aligment.
-	(elf_parse_notes): Likewise.
-	(_bfd_elf_make_section_from_shdr): Pass section aligment to
-	elf_parse_notes.
-	(bfd_section_from_phdr): Pass segment aligment to elf_read_notes.
-	(elf_parse_notes): Add an argument for note aligment.  Use
-	ELF_NOTE_DESC_OFFSET to get the offset of the note descriptor.
-	Use ELF_NOTE_NEXT_OFFSET to get the offset of the next note
-	entry.
-	(elf_read_notes): Add an argument for note aligment and pass it
-	to elf_parse_notes.
-
 2017-11-23  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
 
 	* elf32-hppa.c (pc_dynrelocs): Define.
diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index d42c949407f..8cd67ad59bb 100644
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -52,10 +52,9 @@ static int elf_sort_sections (const void *, const void *);
 static bfd_boolean assign_file_positions_except_relocs (bfd *, struct bfd_link_info *);
 static bfd_boolean prep_headers (bfd *);
 static bfd_boolean swap_out_syms (bfd *, struct elf_strtab_hash **, int) ;
-static bfd_boolean elf_read_notes (bfd *, file_ptr, bfd_size_type,
-				   size_t align) ;
+static bfd_boolean elf_read_notes (bfd *, file_ptr, bfd_size_type) ;
 static bfd_boolean elf_parse_notes (bfd *abfd, char *buf, size_t size,
-				    file_ptr offset, size_t align);
+				    file_ptr offset);
 
 /* Swap version information in and out.  The version information is
    currently size independent.  If that ever changes, this code will
@@ -1090,8 +1089,7 @@ _bfd_elf_make_section_from_shdr (bfd *abfd,
       if (!bfd_malloc_and_get_section (abfd, newsect, &contents))
 	return FALSE;
 
-      elf_parse_notes (abfd, (char *) contents, hdr->sh_size,
-		       hdr->sh_offset, hdr->sh_addralign);
+      elf_parse_notes (abfd, (char *) contents, hdr->sh_size, hdr->sh_offset);
       free (contents);
     }
 
@@ -2992,8 +2990,7 @@ bfd_section_from_phdr (bfd *abfd, Elf_Internal_Phdr *hdr, int hdr_index)
     case PT_NOTE:
       if (! _bfd_elf_make_section_from_phdr (abfd, hdr, hdr_index, "note"))
 	return FALSE;
-      if (! elf_read_notes (abfd, hdr->p_offset, hdr->p_filesz,
-			    hdr->p_align))
+      if (! elf_read_notes (abfd, hdr->p_offset, hdr->p_filesz))
 	return FALSE;
       return TRUE;
 
@@ -10973,14 +10970,14 @@ elfcore_write_register_note (bfd *abfd,
 }
 
 static bfd_boolean
-elf_parse_notes (bfd *abfd, char *buf, size_t size, file_ptr offset,
-		 size_t align)
+elf_parse_notes (bfd *abfd, char *buf, size_t size, file_ptr offset)
 {
   char *p;
 
   p = buf;
   while (p < buf + size)
     {
+      /* FIXME: bad alignment assumption.  */
       Elf_External_Note *xnp = (Elf_External_Note *) p;
       Elf_Internal_Note in;
 
@@ -10995,7 +10992,7 @@ elf_parse_notes (bfd *abfd, char *buf, size_t size, file_ptr offset,
 	return FALSE;
 
       in.descsz = H_GET_32 (abfd, xnp->descsz);
-      in.descdata = p + ELF_NOTE_DESC_OFFSET (in.namesz, align);
+      in.descdata = in.namedata + BFD_ALIGN (in.namesz, 4);
       in.descpos = offset + (in.descdata - buf);
       if (in.descsz != 0
 	  && (in.descdata >= buf + size
@@ -11057,15 +11054,14 @@ elf_parse_notes (bfd *abfd, char *buf, size_t size, file_ptr offset,
 	  break;
 	}
 
-      p += ELF_NOTE_NEXT_OFFSET (in.namesz, in.descsz, align);
+      p = in.descdata + BFD_ALIGN (in.descsz, 4);
     }
 
   return TRUE;
 }
 
 static bfd_boolean
-elf_read_notes (bfd *abfd, file_ptr offset, bfd_size_type size,
-		size_t align)
+elf_read_notes (bfd *abfd, file_ptr offset, bfd_size_type size)
 {
   char *buf;
 
@@ -11084,7 +11080,7 @@ elf_read_notes (bfd *abfd, file_ptr offset, bfd_size_type size,
   buf[size] = 0;
 
   if (bfd_bread (buf, size, abfd) != size
-      || !elf_parse_notes (abfd, buf, size, offset, align))
+      || !elf_parse_notes (abfd, buf, size, offset))
     {
       free (buf);
       return FALSE;
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index eab683047ed..32df4b98f76 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,10 +1,3 @@
-2017-11-24  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
-
-	PR binutils/22444
-	* readelf.c (process_notes_at): Use ELF_NOTE_DESC_OFFSET to get
-	the offset of the note descriptor.  Use ELF_NOTE_NEXT_OFFSET to
-	get the offset of the next note entry.
-
 2017-11-23  Pavel I. Kryukov  <kryukov@frtk.ru>
 
 	PR 22485
diff --git a/binutils/readelf.c b/binutils/readelf.c
index 739367d899b..5944ebee960 100644
--- a/binutils/readelf.c
+++ b/binutils/readelf.c
@@ -17969,13 +17969,9 @@ process_notes_at (Filedata *           filedata,
 	  inote.namesz   = BYTE_GET (external->namesz);
 	  inote.namedata = external->name;
 	  inote.descsz   = BYTE_GET (external->descsz);
-	  inote.descdata = ((char *) external
-			    + ELF_NOTE_DESC_OFFSET (inote.namesz,
-						    section->sh_addralign));
+	  inote.descdata = inote.namedata + align_power (inote.namesz, 2);
 	  inote.descpos  = offset + (inote.descdata - (char *) pnotes);
-	  next = ((char *) external
-		  + ELF_NOTE_NEXT_OFFSET (inote.namesz, inote.descsz,
-					  section->sh_addralign));
+	  next = inote.descdata + align_power (inote.descsz, 2);
 	}
       else
 	{
diff --git a/include/ChangeLog b/include/ChangeLog
index a7668678f86..670456cecea 100644
--- a/include/ChangeLog
+++ b/include/ChangeLog
@@ -1,10 +1,3 @@
-2017-11-24  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
-
-	PR binutils/22444
-	* elf/external.h (ELF_ALIGN_UP): New.
-	(ELF_NOTE_DESC_OFFSET): Likewise.
-	(ELF_NOTE_NEXT_OFFSET): Likewise.
-
 2017-11-16  Tamar Christina  <tamar.christina@arm.com>
 
 	* opcode/aarch64.h: (AARCH64_FEATURE_F16_FML): New.
diff --git a/include/elf/external.h b/include/elf/external.h
index eb0a53a9a9c..d65bae0b218 100644
--- a/include/elf/external.h
+++ b/include/elf/external.h
@@ -183,22 +183,6 @@ typedef struct {
   char		name[1];		/* Start of the name+desc data */
 } Elf_External_Note;
 
-/* Align an address upward to a boundary, expressed as a number of bytes.
-   E.g. align to an 8-byte boundary with argument of 8.  */
-#define ELF_ALIGN_UP(addr, boundary) \
-  (((bfd_vma) (addr) + ((boundary) - 1)) & ~ (bfd_vma) ((boundary) -1))
-
-/* Compute the offset of the note descriptor from size of note entry's
-   owner string and note alignment.  */
-#define ELF_NOTE_DESC_OFFSET(namesz, align) \
-  ELF_ALIGN_UP (offsetof (Elf_External_Note, name) + (namesz), (align))
-
-/* Compute the offset of the next note entry from size of note entry's
-   owner string, size of the note descriptor and note alignment.  */
-#define ELF_NOTE_NEXT_OFFSET(namesz, descsz, align) \
-  ELF_ALIGN_UP (ELF_NOTE_DESC_OFFSET ((namesz), (align)) + (descsz), \
-		(align))
-
 /* Relocation Entries */
 typedef struct {
   unsigned char r_offset[4];	/* Location at which to apply the action */