[PATCH] coff: Ignore corrupt relocation table

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ignore slurp corrupt relocation table to avoid linker crash later.
>
>         PR ld/33455
>         * coffcode.h (coff_slurp_reloc_table): Return false for illegal
>         symbol index.
>
> Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
> ---
>  bfd/coffcode.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/bfd/coffcode.h b/bfd/coffcode.h
> index 4a1f4be3773..3dfb31f6b79 100644
> --- a/bfd/coffcode.h
> +++ b/bfd/coffcode.h
> @@ -5306,8 +5306,8 @@ coff_slurp_reloc_table (bfd * abfd, sec_ptr asect, asymbol ** symbols)
>                 /* xgettext:c-format */
>                 (_("%pB: warning: illegal symbol index %ld in relocs"),
>                  abfd, dst.r_symndx);
> -             cache_ptr->sym_ptr_ptr = &bfd_abs_section_ptr->symbol;
> -             ptr = NULL;
> +             /* Ignore corrupt relocation table: PR ld/33455.  */
> +             return false;
>             }
>           else
>             {
> --
> 2.51.0
>

Any comments or objections?

-- 
H.J.