[committed, PATCH] Check file size before getting section contents
Pedro Alves
palves@redhat.com
Mon Jun 26 22:24:00 GMT 2017
On 06/26/2017 10:48 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Hi H.J.,
>
> This patch caused many regressions in GDB's testsuite:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-testers/2017-q2/msg05045.html
>
> x86 buildslaves haven't caught up with the patch yet, but I
> see the same thing locally, on my x86-64 machine. (git bisect
> pointed me here.)
>
> Here's quick way to run only a few of the tests that are now failing:
>
> $ make check TESTS="gdb.base/break-interp.exp gdb.base/corefile.exp gdb.base/solib-search.exp gdb.reverse/sigall-precsave.exp"
>
> Any idea what's going on?
>
> BTW, this looks very suspicious:
>
> @@ -867,7 +876,13 @@ _bfd_generic_get_section_contents_in_window
> sz = section->rawsize;
> else
> sz = section->size;
> + filesz = bfd_get_file_size (abfd);
> + {
> + /* This should never happen. */
> + abort ();
> + }
>
> ... because that abort is unconditional. Did you intend
> to guard it with:
> if (filesz < 0)
> like in _bfd_generic_get_section_contents?
>
> @@ -811,8 +812,15 @@ _bfd_generic_get_section_contents (bfd *abfd,
> sz = section->rawsize;
> else
> sz = section->size;
> + filesz = bfd_get_file_size (abfd);
> + if (filesz < 0)
> + {
> + /* This should never happen. */
> + abort ();
> + }
> if (offset + count < count
> - || offset + count > sz)
> + || offset + count > sz
> + || (section->filepos + offset + sz) > (bfd_size_type) filesz)
> {
The problem is this new "section->filepos + offset + sz"
check here. GDB calls bfd_get_section_contents with offset != 0,
which causes that "offset + sz" addition to shoot past filesz.
I can't see how that new check makes sense as is. We're reading
"count" bytes, not "sz" bytes.
I'm testing this.
From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Date: 2017-06-26 22:51:02 +0100
Fix
---
bfd/libbfd.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/bfd/libbfd.c b/bfd/libbfd.c
index b903328..b8c65b5 100644
--- a/bfd/libbfd.c
+++ b/bfd/libbfd.c
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ _bfd_generic_get_section_contents (bfd *abfd,
}
if (offset + count < count
|| offset + count > sz
- || (section->filepos + offset + sz) > (bfd_size_type) filesz)
+ || (section->filepos + offset + count) > (bfd_size_type) filesz)
{
bfd_set_error (bfd_error_invalid_operation);
return FALSE;
@@ -877,6 +877,7 @@ _bfd_generic_get_section_contents_in_window
else
sz = section->size;
filesz = bfd_get_file_size (abfd);
+ if (filesz < 0)
{
/* This should never happen. */
abort ();
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