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[PATCH] PR gold/20462: Fix bogus layout on ARM with linker script using PHDRS clause


See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20462 for the test
case.

I'm not at all sure this fix is correct.  It fixes both the minimal
test case I put in the bug, and my real case (which uses the same
linker script).  It causes no regressions in 'make check-gold' in
a trunk build with --target=arm-eabi.

Here's what I figured out:
* On the first pass, the layout comes out just fine.
* ARM always tries relaxation (unless -r).
* In Target_arm::do_relax it calls Target_arm::fix_exidx_coverage and
  decides that constituted some relaxation happening, so a second pass
  always happens when there are any .ARM.exidx sections.
* In the second pass, Script_sections::expected_segment_count sees
  this->segments_created_ and short-circuits, so it returns 0 instead
  of this->phdrs_elements_->size().
* Ergo, SIZEOF_HEADERS omits the phdrs in the second pass and
  addresses go backwards, making everything unhappy.

Script_sections::expected_segment_count is the only thing that tests
this->segments_created_.  It's not really clear to me if this ought
to be part of the state that Script_sections::release_segments (sole
caller Layout::clean_up_after_relaxation) resets, as my change here
does.  An alternate fix would be to reverse the order of the first two
checks in Script_sections::expected_segment_count so that it always
returns this->phdrs_elements_->size() when this->saw_phdrs_clause().
(I haven't tried that on my test cases.)

If this is indeed a good fix, may I commit it to trunk and 2.27?
If not, is my other suggestion right or is there a different fix?


Thanks,
Roland


gold/
2016-08-11  Roland McGrath  <roland@hack.frob.com>

        PR gold/20462
        * script-sections.cc (Script_sections::release_segments):
        Reset this->segments_created_.

diff --git a/gold/script-sections.cc b/gold/script-sections.cc
index 96c68de..bf25391 100644
--- a/gold/script-sections.cc
+++ b/gold/script-sections.cc
@@ -4459,6 +4459,7 @@ Script_sections::release_segments()
           ++p)
        (*p)->release_segment();
     }
+  this->segments_created_ = false;
 }

 // Print the SECTIONS clause to F for debugging.


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