[PATCH] debugedit: Skip relocations with missing symbol/section offset.

[Tom Stellard]

On 7/1/21 3:05 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> We tried to handle relocations that didn't have a symbol associated
> with any section.  The would cause a message like: "Unhandled
> relocation 1 in .debug_info section".  Which wasn't that helpful
> either. So skip relocations without an associated symbol section index
> and improve the error message a little.
> 
>      * debugedit.c (setup_relbuf): Continue when sym.st_shndx == 0.
>      Add relocation index to error message.
> 

I tested this and can confirm that it fixes my issue with the
Fedora kernel builds with clang and LTO.

-Tom

> Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
> ---
>   tools/debugedit.c | 13 +++++++------
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/debugedit.c b/tools/debugedit.c
> index c6975b2..d0c6371 100644
> --- a/tools/debugedit.c
> +++ b/tools/debugedit.c
> @@ -561,10 +561,11 @@ setup_relbuf (DSO *dso, debug_section *sec, int *reltype)
>   	continue;
>         /* Only consider relocations against .debug_str, .debug_line,
>   	 .debug_line_str, and .debug_abbrev.  */
> -      if (sym.st_shndx != debug_sections[DEBUG_STR].sec
> -	  && sym.st_shndx != debug_sections[DEBUG_LINE].sec
> -	  && sym.st_shndx != debug_sections[DEBUG_LINE_STR].sec
> -	  && sym.st_shndx != debug_sections[DEBUG_ABBREV].sec)
> +      if (sym.st_shndx == 0 ||
> +	  (sym.st_shndx != debug_sections[DEBUG_STR].sec
> +	   && sym.st_shndx != debug_sections[DEBUG_LINE].sec
> +	   && sym.st_shndx != debug_sections[DEBUG_LINE_STR].sec
> +	   && sym.st_shndx != debug_sections[DEBUG_ABBREV].sec))
>   	continue;
>         rela.r_addend += sym.st_value;
>         rtype = ELF64_R_TYPE (rela.r_info);
> @@ -625,8 +626,8 @@ setup_relbuf (DSO *dso, debug_section *sec, int *reltype)
>   #endif
>   	default:
>   	fail:
> -	  error (1, 0, "%s: Unhandled relocation %d in %s section",
> -		 dso->filename, rtype, sec->name);
> +	  error (1, 0, "%s: Unhandled relocation %d at [%d] for %s section",
> +		 dso->filename, rtype, ndx, sec->name);
>   	}
>         relend->ptr = sec->data
>   	+ (rela.r_offset - base);
>