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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2017-12-08 10:07:14 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2017-12-08 10:07:14 +0000
commit2d054e6bfdfb0f58fb9cc501c29327df34fec697 (patch)
tree9ac200639d7ff30b0da20b6ad2d431a5bbb35b1e /binutils
parentc8bed57010e8789212a6841db4b397b175a00f9e (diff)
downloadbinutils-gdb-2d054e6bfdfb0f58fb9cc501c29327df34fec697.tar.gz
Fix stripping relocs in a file with mergeable notes.
A recent Fedora bug (1520805) exposed a problem with objcopy's reloc copying code, when a binary also contains mergeable notes. The note merging code would delete some relocs, but then the reloc copying code would try to put them back again, which did not work. So I am checking in the patch below to fix the problem. The patch also tweaks one of the binutils note merging tests so that it is skipped for the Sparc64 target, since this has funky relocs. binutils * objcopy.c (copy_relocations_in_section): Use the orelocations field of the input section, if it has been initialised. * testsuite/binutils-all/note-2-64.d: Skip test on Sparc64. bfd * elfcode.h (elf_write_relocs): Check for an empty howto field.
Diffstat (limited to 'binutils')
-rw-r--r--binutils/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--binutils/objcopy.c27
-rw-r--r--binutils/testsuite/binutils-all/note-2-64.d4
3 files changed, 29 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index 058ebf38bec..4f29d19c315 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2017-12-08 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+ * objcopy.c (copy_relocations_in_section): Use the orelocations
+ field of the input section, if it has been initialised.
+ * testsuite/binutils-all/note-2-64.d: Skip test on Sparc64.
+
2017-12-06 Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com>
PR 22465
diff --git a/binutils/objcopy.c b/binutils/objcopy.c
index f40b355c14b..5026fd8af21 100644
--- a/binutils/objcopy.c
+++ b/binutils/objcopy.c
@@ -3785,14 +3785,24 @@ copy_relocations_in_section (bfd *ibfd, sec_ptr isection, void *obfdarg)
}
else
{
- relpp = (arelent **) xmalloc (relsize);
- relcount = bfd_canonicalize_reloc (ibfd, isection, relpp, isympp);
- if (relcount < 0)
+ if (isection->orelocation != NULL)
{
- status = 1;
- bfd_nonfatal_message (NULL, ibfd, isection,
- _("relocation count is negative"));
- return;
+ /* Some other function has already set up the output relocs
+ for us, so scan those instead of the default relocs. */
+ relcount = isection->reloc_count;
+ relpp = isection->orelocation;
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ relpp = (arelent **) xmalloc (relsize);
+ relcount = bfd_canonicalize_reloc (ibfd, isection, relpp, isympp);
+ if (relcount < 0)
+ {
+ status = 1;
+ bfd_nonfatal_message (NULL, ibfd, isection,
+ _("relocation count is negative"));
+ return;
+ }
}
if (strip_symbols == STRIP_ALL)
@@ -3815,7 +3825,8 @@ copy_relocations_in_section (bfd *ibfd, sec_ptr isection, void *obfdarg)
temp_relpp [temp_relcount++] = relpp [i];
}
relcount = temp_relcount;
- free (relpp);
+ if (isection->orelocation == NULL)
+ free (relpp);
relpp = temp_relpp;
}
diff --git a/binutils/testsuite/binutils-all/note-2-64.d b/binutils/testsuite/binutils-all/note-2-64.d
index 85358213a2c..f9be89756ae 100644
--- a/binutils/testsuite/binutils-all/note-2-64.d
+++ b/binutils/testsuite/binutils-all/note-2-64.d
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
#objcopy: --merge-notes
#name: merge notes section (64-bits)
#source: note-2-64.s
+#not-target: sparc64-*-*
+# Internally the Sparc64 backend uses two relocs for every one reloc visible externally.
+# Unfortunately the BFD library does not provide a target specific way to delete individual
+# relocs, so the note merging feature fails.
#...
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