[binutils-gdb] arm testsuite: add two corner cases for EABI string attributes

Matthieu Longo mlongo@sourceware.org
Wed Jun 25 08:41:53 GMT 2025


https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=c35217309a9753e1a5666626f779bfd71668de9d

commit c35217309a9753e1a5666626f779bfd71668de9d
Author: Matthieu Longo <matthieu.longo@arm.com>
Date:   Fri Jun 20 12:24:58 2025 +0100

    arm testsuite: add two corner cases for EABI string attributes
    
    The current testsuite for gas/readelf lacked two tests for EABI build
    attributes:
    - one when the final attribute is an empty string.
    - one when the final attribute is a string missing the NULL terminator.
    
    Those two issues cannot occur with Object Attributes v1 (OAv1) sections
    created by the GNU binutils. Indeed a value of '\0' (empty string) for a
    tag with a string value is considered as the default value for the
    attribute, and consequently is eliminated by Gas from the output object
    file during the serialization.
    However, readelf should be able to process correctly files of an unknown
    origin that could contain those two use cases.
    
    This patch adds the two tests mentioned above. The first one is marked
    as XFAIL because the empty string is not processed correctly by readelf
    when it is in the last position. The second one passes, but simply print
    out "[...]" without mentioning that the NTBS is corrupted.
    
    A following patch will fix the bug in readelf, and will amend the newly
    introduced tests.

Diff:
---
 gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-empty-string.d               | 11 +++++++++++
 gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-empty-string.s               | 14 ++++++++++++++
 gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-non-null-terminated-string.d |  9 +++++++++
 gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-non-null-terminated-string.s | 14 ++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 48 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-empty-string.d b/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-empty-string.d
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3c6560c80a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-empty-string.d
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# name: EABI attribute - empy string
+# source: attr-empty-string.s
+# as:
+# readelf: -T -A
+# This test is only valid on EABI based ports.
+# target: *-*-*eabi* *-*-nacl*
+# xfail: *
+
+Attribute Section: aeabi
+File Attributes
+  Tag_CPU_raw_name: ""
diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-empty-string.s b/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-empty-string.s
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f8ed373733b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-empty-string.s
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+	.section .XXX.attributes, "", %0x70000003
+	# Format version
+	.byte 'A'
+	# Size
+	.4byte (.Lend_attrs - .)
+	# "Vendor"
+	.asciz "aeabi"
+	# File scope
+	.byte 1
+	# Size
+	.4byte (.Lend_attrs - . + 1)
+	.uleb128 4
+	.asciz ""
+.Lend_attrs:
diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-non-null-terminated-string.d b/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-non-null-terminated-string.d
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d079d14903e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-non-null-terminated-string.d
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# name: EABI attribute - non-null terminated string
+# source: attr-non-null-terminated-string.s
+# This test is only valid on EABI based ports.
+# target: *-*-*eabi* *-*-nacl*
+# as:
+# readelf: --silent-truncation -A
+Attribute Section: aeabi
+File Attributes
+  Tag_CPU_raw_name: "ab"
diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-non-null-terminated-string.s b/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-non-null-terminated-string.s
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f886f390a86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-non-null-terminated-string.s
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+	.section .XXX.attributes, "", %0x70000003
+	# Format version
+	.byte 'A'
+	# Size
+	.4byte (.Lend_attrs - .)
+	# "Vendor"
+	.asciz "aeabi"
+	# File scope
+	.byte 1
+	# Size
+	.4byte (.Lend_attrs - . + 1)
+	.uleb128 4
+	.byte 'a', 'b', 'c'
+.Lend_attrs:


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