For some binaries we can get a invalid section alignment, for example if sh_align = 1 and sh_addralign is 0. In the case of a zero size section like ".note.GNU-stack", this is irrelavent as far as I can tell and we shouldn't error in this case. RP 2014/6/11 Upstream-Status: Pending diff --git a/libelf/elf32_updatenull.c b/libelf/elf32_updatenull.c --- a/libelf/elf32_updatenull.c +++ b/libelf/elf32_updatenull.c @@ -339,8 +339,8 @@ __elfw2(LIBELFBITS,updatenull_wrlock) (Elf *elf, int *change_bop, size_t shnum) we test for the alignment of the section being large enough for the largest alignment required by a data block. */ - if (unlikely (! powerof2 (shdr->sh_addralign)) - || unlikely ((shdr->sh_addralign ?: 1) < sh_align)) + if (shdr->sh_size && (unlikely (! powerof2 (shdr->sh_addralign)) + || unlikely ((shdr->sh_addralign ?: 1) < sh_align))) { __libelf_seterrno (ELF_E_INVALID_ALIGN); return -1;