elf32.em place_orphan segfault

Alan Modra alan@linuxcare.com.au
Wed Sep 6 08:25:00 GMT 2000


While fiddling with the new "ld --unique" option, I managed to crash the
linker.  You have to try fairly hard, but using a custom link script with
a .text output section that doesn't match the first input .text section
does the trick.  Without --unique you'd need to try even harder with
unusual section flags to get the crash.

Anyway, this patch fixes the problem, and improves link times too.

ld/ChangeLog
	* emultempl/elf32.em (gld${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan): Don't
	try shuffling sections when the orphan happens to be the place
	holder.  Keep count of unique section names generated so we speed
	the search for a new name.

Alan Modra
-- 
Linuxcare.  Support for the Revolution.

Index: emultempl/elf32.em
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/ld/emultempl/elf32.em,v
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -u -p -r1.32 elf32.em
--- elf32.em	2000/09/05 03:05:19	1.32
+++ elf32.em	2000/09/06 14:50:13
@@ -1008,6 +1008,7 @@ gld${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan (file,
   static struct orphan_save hold_bss;
   static struct orphan_save hold_rel;
   static struct orphan_save hold_interp;
+  static int count = 1;
   struct orphan_save *place;
   lang_statement_list_type *old = NULL;
   lang_statement_list_type add;
@@ -1092,7 +1093,9 @@ gld${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan (file,
      loadable or allocateable characteristics.  */
   outsecname = secname;
   if (bfd_get_section_by_name (output_bfd, outsecname) != NULL)
-    outsecname = bfd_get_unique_section_name (output_bfd, outsecname, NULL);
+    outsecname = bfd_get_unique_section_name (output_bfd,
+					      outsecname,
+					      &count);
 
   if (place != NULL)
     {
@@ -1154,7 +1157,9 @@ gld${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan (file,
       stat_ptr = old;
 
       snew = os->bfd_section;
-      if (place->os->bfd_section != NULL || place->section != NULL)
+      if (place->section != NULL
+	  || (place->os->bfd_section != NULL
+	      && place->os->bfd_section != snew))
 	{
 	  /* Shuffle the section to make the output file look neater.  */
 	  if (place->section == NULL)




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