[committed, PATCH] Check file size before getting section contents

Pedro Alves palves@redhat.com
Mon Jun 26 23:26:00 GMT 2017


On 06/26/2017 11:24 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:

> 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.

Testing gas+ld+gdb passed.  I've pushed it in.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves



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