PR25196, abort in rewrite_elf_program_header

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Mon Nov 18 11:50:00 GMT 2019


This patch introduces a new "sorry, cannot handle this file" bfd error
status.  The idea is to use this error in cases where bfd hasn't found
a bfd_bad_value error, ie. an input file or set of options that are
invalid, but rather an input file that is simply too difficult to
process.  Typically this might happen with fuzzed object files such as
the one in the PR, a wildly improbable core file.  Some things are
just not worth wasting time over to fix "properly".

	PR 25196
	* bfd.c (bfd_error_type): Add bfd_error_sorry.
	(bfd_errmsgs): Likewise.
	* elf.c (rewrite_elf_program_header): Don't abort on confused
	lma/alignment.  Replace bfd_error_bad_value with bfd_error_sorry.
	(_bfd_elf_validate_reloc): Use bfd_error_sorry.
	(_bfd_elf_final_write_processing): Likewise.
	* bfd-in2.h: Regenerate.

diff --git a/bfd/bfd.c b/bfd/bfd.c
index 94e9f27e9d..e92213b543 100644
--- a/bfd/bfd.c
+++ b/bfd/bfd.c
@@ -655,6 +655,7 @@ CODE_FRAGMENT
 .  bfd_error_bad_value,
 .  bfd_error_file_truncated,
 .  bfd_error_file_too_big,
+.  bfd_error_sorry,
 .  bfd_error_on_input,
 .  bfd_error_invalid_error_code
 .}
@@ -688,6 +689,7 @@ const char *const bfd_errmsgs[] =
   N_("bad value"),
   N_("file truncated"),
   N_("file too big"),
+  N_("sorry, cannot handle this file"),
   N_("error reading %s: %s"),
   N_("#<invalid error code>")
 };
diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index be060d579c..e10099842b 100644
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -7324,7 +7324,7 @@ rewrite_elf_program_header (bfd *ibfd, bfd *obfd)
 					  : 0),
 				       output_section->alignment_power)
 			  != output_section->lma)
-			abort ();
+			goto sorry;
 		    }
 		  else
 		    {
@@ -7363,7 +7363,8 @@ rewrite_elf_program_header (bfd *ibfd, bfd *obfd)
 	     negative size - or segments that do not contain any sections.  */
 	  if (map->count == 0)
 	    {
-	      bfd_set_error (bfd_error_bad_value);
+	    sorry:
+	      bfd_set_error (bfd_error_sorry);
 	      free (sections);
 	      return FALSE;
 	    }
@@ -9277,7 +9278,7 @@ _bfd_elf_validate_reloc (bfd *abfd, arelent *areloc)
   /* xgettext:c-format */
   _bfd_error_handler (_("%pB: %s unsupported"),
 		      abfd, areloc->howto->name);
-  bfd_set_error (bfd_error_bad_value);
+  bfd_set_error (bfd_error_sorry);
   return FALSE;
 }
 
@@ -12249,7 +12250,7 @@ _bfd_elf_final_write_processing (bfd *abfd)
 	    _bfd_error_handler (_("symbol type STT_GNU_IFUNC is unsupported"));
 	  if (elf_tdata (abfd)->has_gnu_osabi & elf_gnu_osabi_unique)
 	    _bfd_error_handler (_("symbol binding STB_GNU_UNIQUE is unsupported"));
-	  bfd_set_error (bfd_error_bad_value);
+	  bfd_set_error (bfd_error_sorry);
 	  return FALSE;
 	}
     }

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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