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[PATCH] HPPA/BFD: Fix no-.data DT_HP_LOAD_MAP segfault
- From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at linux-mips dot org>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Dave Anglin <dave dot anglin at nrc dot ca>, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:21:50 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: [PATCH] HPPA/BFD: Fix no-.data DT_HP_LOAD_MAP segfault
Hi,
This change fixes a 64-bit HPPA linker crash when a dynamic ELF output
object is requested, but there's no .data section output, typically
because of the use of the /DISCARD/ linker script keyword. I gather the
section is used for some statically allocated data area defined by the ABI
and pointed to by the HP_LOAD_MAP dynamic tag. As such I suppose such
binaries are not ABI compliant, but the linker shouldn't crash regardless,
so I propose the following simple fix that makes the linker fail with:
"final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output" instead.
I found the problem reproducible with the hppa64-linux-gnu and
hppa64-hp-hpux11.23 targets.
OK to apply? I revealed this in some unrelated testing so based on that
I suppose I can cook up a test case to cover this specifically if that
would help. Alternatively please feel free to propose a better fix.
2013-07-27 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
* elf64-hppa.c (elf64_hppa_finish_dynamic_sections)
<DT_HP_LOAD_MAP>: Return unsuccessfully if there's no `.data'
section.
Maciej
binutils-2.23.52-20130506-ld-hp-load-map.patch
Index: binutils/bfd/elf64-hppa.c
===================================================================
--- binutils.orig/bfd/elf64-hppa.c
+++ binutils/bfd/elf64-hppa.c
@@ -2524,6 +2524,8 @@ elf64_hppa_finish_dynamic_sections (bfd
area at the start of the .data section. So all we have to
to is find the start of the .data section. */
s = bfd_get_section_by_name (output_bfd, ".data");
+ if (!s)
+ return FALSE;
dyn.d_un.d_ptr = s->vma;
bfd_elf64_swap_dyn_out (output_bfd, &dyn, dyncon);
break;