[PATCH v4 01/11] sframe: Ignore section padding when converting endianness

Jens Remus jremus@linux.ibm.com
Mon Jul 7 16:21:42 GMT 2025


The .sframe section may have a trailing padding due to the architecture-
specific default section alignment.  Do not treat this padding as error
when converting between target and host endianness.

This can be observed when building Binutils with SFrame s390x support on
x86-64 for s390x using configure option "--target=s390x-ibm-linux-gnu"
and running the GAS test suite.

While at it reuse the determined SFrame section header size.

libsframe/
	* sframe.c (flip_sframe): Ignore .sframe section padding.  Reuse
	SFrame header size.

Reported-by: Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
---

Notes (jremus):
    Changes in V3:
    - Merge commit note into commit message. (Indu)

 libsframe/sframe.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libsframe/sframe.c b/libsframe/sframe.c
index ea0e1c7cd230..977abf5ef0a1 100644
--- a/libsframe/sframe.c
+++ b/libsframe/sframe.c
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ flip_sframe (char *frame_buf, size_t buf_size, uint32_t to_foreign)
 	  fre_offset = fdep->sfde_func_start_fre_off;
 	}
 
-      fp = frame_buf + sframe_get_hdr_size (ihp) + ihp->sfh_freoff;
+      fp = frame_buf + hdrsz + ihp->sfh_freoff;
       fp += fre_offset;
       for (; j < prev_frep_index + num_fres; j++)
 	{
@@ -535,8 +535,12 @@ flip_sframe (char *frame_buf, size_t buf_size, uint32_t to_foreign)
       prev_frep_index = j;
     }
   /* All FDEs and FREs must have been endian flipped by now.  */
-  if ((j != ihp->sfh_num_fres) || (bytes_flipped != (buf_size - hdrsz)))
+  if ((j != ihp->sfh_num_fres) || (bytes_flipped > (buf_size - hdrsz)))
     goto bad;
+  /* Optional trailing section padding.  */
+  for (fp = frame_buf + hdrsz + bytes_flipped; fp < frame_buf + buf_size; fp++)
+    if (*fp != '\0')
+      goto bad;
 
   /* Success.  */
   return 0;
-- 
2.48.1



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