2021-05-28 00:24 (UTC+0300), Dmitry Kozlyuk:
> Size of string constant symbol may be larger than its length
> measured up to NUL terminator. In this case pmdinfogen included padding
> bytes after NUL terminator in generated source, yielding incorrect code.
>
> Always trim string data to NUL terminator while reading ELF.
> It was already done for COFF because there's no symbol size.
>
> Bugzilla ID: 720
> Fixes: f0f93a7adfee ("buildtools: use Python pmdinfogen")
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
> ---
> v2: return helper to coff.py, where it's needed (David Marchand).
>
>  buildtools/pmdinfogen.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/buildtools/pmdinfogen.py b/buildtools/pmdinfogen.py
> index 7a739ec7d4..2a44f17bda 100755
> --- a/buildtools/pmdinfogen.py
> +++ b/buildtools/pmdinfogen.py
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ def __init__(self, image, symbol):
>      def string_value(self):
>          size = self._symbol["st_size"]
>          value = self.get_value(0, size)
> -        return value[:-1].decode() if value else ""
> +        return coff.decode_asciiz(value)  # not COFF-specific
> 
>      def get_value(self, offset, size):
>          section = self._symbol["st_shndx"]

There are CI failures that seem unrelated to this patch:
some tests with NICs that I can't check
and an Arch Linux build failure that I failed to reproduce.
GitHub Actions are passing.
Are these known CI bugs or does this patch need any corrections?