Hi, On Thu, 2020-06-11 at 15:25 +0100, Anastasios Andronidis via Elfutils- devel wrote: > Could someone please help me with this: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62293512/inject-a-preinit-array-section-in-an-elf-file-with-libelf > > I'm trying to do some runtime manipulation of an elf file and I'm a > little bit lost with how to use libelf :/ > > Basically I want to copy an elf file to a new one and edit > .preinit_array section. This is similar to what objcopy --add-section > would do, but I only care about the elf headers and using libelf to > achieve this.
elfutils libelf can certainly help with adding or updating section data and if requested update the section headers. See for example tests/addsections.c. But you are responsible for updating and keeping the program headers in sync with the section data/offsets yourself (this is why in a lot of test/examples you actually see elf_flagelf (elf, ELF_C_SET, ELF_F_LAYOUT) (to tell libelf not to assume it can adjust the section headers itself) when you have an ELF file with program headers (because you don't want the data offsets to get out of sync). Cheers, Mark
