PR 33455 SEGV in vfinfo at ldmisc.c:527
Alan Modra
amodra@gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 23:55:28 GMT 2025
A reloc howto set up with EMPTY_HOWTO has a NULL name. More than one
place emitting diagnostics assumes a reloc howto won't have a NULL
name.
PR 33455
* coffcode.h (coff_slurp_reloc_table): Don't allow a howto with
a NULL name.
diff --git a/bfd/coffcode.h b/bfd/coffcode.h
index 1e5acc0032c..ce1e39131b4 100644
--- a/bfd/coffcode.h
+++ b/bfd/coffcode.h
@@ -5345,7 +5345,7 @@ coff_slurp_reloc_table (bfd * abfd, sec_ptr asect, asymbol ** symbols)
RTYPE2HOWTO (cache_ptr, &dst);
#endif /* RELOC_PROCESSING */
- if (cache_ptr->howto == NULL)
+ if (cache_ptr->howto == NULL || cache_ptr->howto->name == NULL)
{
_bfd_error_handler
/* xgettext:c-format */
--
Alan Modra
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