Objdump crash on prelinked ARM binaries

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu Jun 5 14:43:00 GMT 2003


Hi Daniel,

> arm-linux targets only provide elf_info_to_howto_rel.  Then, when
> objdump finds Rela relocations in a prelinked object file, it
> dereferences a NULL pointer trying to call ebd->elf_info_to_howto.
> Will it break anything to always provide both elf_info_to_howto
> functions?

Probably.  Why are Rela relocations being encountered anyway ?

At the very least objdump should check ebd->elf_info_to_howto and
issue an error message, rather than seg faulting.

Cheers
        Nick
        



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