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-rw-r--r--elf/setup-vdso.h17
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/elf/setup-vdso.h b/elf/setup-vdso.h
index ece840df38..86c491e49c 100644
--- a/elf/setup-vdso.h
+++ b/elf/setup-vdso.h
@@ -80,20 +80,13 @@ setup_vdso (struct link_map *main_map __attribute__ ((unused)),
l->l_local_scope[0]->r_list = &l->l_real;
/* Now that we have the info handy, use the DSO image's soname
- so this object can be looked up by name. Note that we do not
- set l_name here. That field gives the file name of the DSO,
- and this DSO is not associated with any file. */
+ so this object can be looked up by name. */
if (l->l_info[DT_SONAME] != NULL)
{
- /* Work around a kernel problem. The kernel cannot handle
- addresses in the vsyscall DSO pages in writev() calls. */
- const char *dsoname = ((char *) D_PTR (l, l_info[DT_STRTAB])
- + l->l_info[DT_SONAME]->d_un.d_val);
- size_t len = strlen (dsoname) + 1;
- char *copy = malloc (len);
- if (copy == NULL)
- _dl_fatal_printf ("out of memory\n");
- l->l_libname->name = l->l_name = memcpy (copy, dsoname, len);
+ char *dsoname = ((char *) D_PTR (l, l_info[DT_STRTAB])
+ + l->l_info[DT_SONAME]->d_un.d_val);
+ l->l_libname->name = dsoname;
+ l->l_name = dsoname;
}
/* Add the vDSO to the object list. */