some problems about Section.data()

[Absoler]

Hi, I'm trying to extract assembly info from an object file, so I used ELFFile.get_section_by_name('.text') and Section.data(), like:

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '.')
from elftools.elf.elffile import ELFFile

with open("/root/linux-master/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.o", "rb") as f:
elf = ELFFile(f, sys.stdout)
text = elf.get_section_by_name('.text')
textInfo = text.stream.read()
print(len(textInfo))
addr = text['sh_addr']
code = text.data()
print(code)

However, the output content is:

3219
b""

And I don't understand why text.data() can't return the assembly info stream. related file is uploaded.

earlycon.zip

[amilendra]

Looking at the section table of earlycon.o, it does not have any data. Notice the size 0.

llvm-readelf -S earlycon.o 
There are 37 section headers, starting at offset 0x422d0:

Section Headers:
  [Nr] Name              Type            Address          Off    Size   ES Flg Lk Inf Al
  [ 0]                   NULL            0000000000000000 000000 000000 00      0   0  0
  [ 1] .text             PROGBITS        0000000000000000 000040 000000 00  AX  0   0  1

Also

And I don't understand why text.data() can't return the assembly info stream. related file is uploaded.

I don't know what you mean by assembly info stream, but if you expect the dissassemly of the .text section, that is not possible because pyelftools is not a dissassembler. For that you should be using a separate tool like objdump.

For example

objdump -d hello.o

hello.o:     file format elf64-x86-64


Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <main>:
   0:	f3 0f 1e fa          	endbr64 
   4:	55                   	push   %rbp
   5:	48 89 e5             	mov    %rsp,%rbp
   8:	c7 45 fc 05 00 00 00 	movl   $0x5,-0x4(%rbp)
   f:	8b 45 fc             	mov    -0x4(%rbp),%eax
  12:	5d                   	pop    %rbp
  13:	c3                   	ret    

Hope that helps.

[sevaa]

@Absoler is this still an issue?