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From FEDORA_PATCHES Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:42:09 -0500
Subject: gdb-rhbz1898252-loadable-section-outside-ELF-segments.patch

;; Backport of "Exclude debuginfo files from 'outside of ELF segments'
;; warning"  (Keith Seitz)

    Exclude debuginfo files from "outside of ELF segments" warning

    When GDB loads an ELF file, it will warn when a section is not located
    in an ELF segment:

    $ ./gdb -q -iex "set build-id-verbose 0" --ex "b systemctl_main" -ex "r" -batch --args systemctl kexec
    Breakpoint 1 at 0xc24d: file ../src/systemctl/systemctl.c, line 8752.
    warning: Loadable section ".note.gnu.property" outside of ELF segments
      in .gnu_debugdata for /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1
    [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
    Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
    warning: Loadable section ".note.gnu.property" outside of ELF segments
      in .gnu_debugdata for /lib64/libcap.so.2
    warning: Loadable section ".note.gnu.property" outside of ELF segments
      in .gnu_debugdata for /lib64/libacl.so.1
    warning: Loadable section ".note.gnu.property" outside of ELF segments
      in .gnu_debugdata for /lib64/libcryptsetup.so.12
    warning: Loadable section ".note.gnu.property" outside of ELF segments
      in .gnu_debugdata for /lib64/libgcrypt.so.20
    warning: Loadable section ".note.gnu.property" outside of ELF segments
      in .gnu_debugdata for /lib64/libip4tc.so.2
    [snip]
    This has feature has also been reported by various users, most notably
    the Fedora-EOL'd bug 1553086.

    Mark Wielaard explains the issue quite nicely in

       https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24717#c2

    The short of it is, the ELF program headers for debuginfo files are
    not suited to this particular use case. Consequently, the warning
    generated above really is useless and should be ignored.

    This patch follows the same heuristic that BFD itself uses.

    gdb/ChangeLog
    2020-11-13  Keith Seitz  <keiths@redhat.com>

            https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1553086
            * elfread.c (elf_symfile_segments): Omit "Loadable section ...
            outside of ELF segments" warning for debugin

diff --git a/gdb/elfread.c b/gdb/elfread.c
--- a/gdb/elfread.c
+++ b/gdb/elfread.c
@@ -151,7 +151,12 @@ elf_symfile_segments (bfd *abfd)
 	 RealView) use SHT_NOBITS for uninitialized data.  Since it is
 	 uninitialized, it doesn't need a program header.  Such
 	 binaries are not relocatable.  */
-      if (bfd_section_size (sect) > 0 && j == num_segments
+
+      /* Exclude debuginfo files from this warning, too, since those
+	 are often not strictly compliant with the standard. See, e.g.,
+	 ld/24717 for more discussion.  */
+      if (!is_debuginfo_file (abfd)
+	  && bfd_section_size (sect) > 0 && j == num_segments
 	  && (bfd_section_flags (sect) & SEC_LOAD) != 0)
 	warning (_("Loadable section \"%s\" outside of ELF segments"),
 		 bfd_section_name (sect));