PR ld/12451

	* elfcode.h (elf_checksum_contents): Read in the section's
	contents if they are not already available.
	* compress.c (bfd_get_full_section_contents): Use zmalloc to
	allocate the buffers so that excess bytes are guaranteed to be
	zero.

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bfd/elfcode.h b/bfd/elfcode.h
index b7e022614c..f5727feda4 100644
--- a/bfd/elfcode.h
+++ b/bfd/elfcode.h
@@ -1097,8 +1097,28 @@ elf_checksum_contents (bfd *abfd,
       elf_swap_shdr_out (abfd, &i_shdr, &x_shdr);
       (*process) (&x_shdr, sizeof x_shdr, arg);
 
+      /* PR ld/12451:
+	 Process the section's contents; reading them in if necessary.  */
       if (i_shdr.contents)
 	(*process) (i_shdr.contents, i_shdr.sh_size, arg);
+      else
+	{
+	  asection *sec;
+
+	  sec = bfd_section_from_elf_index (abfd, count);
+	  if (sec != NULL)
+	    {
+	      if (sec->contents == NULL)
+		{
+		  /* Force rereading from file.  */
+		  sec->flags &= ~SEC_IN_MEMORY;
+		  if (! bfd_malloc_and_get_section (abfd, sec, & sec->contents))
+		    continue;
+		}
+	      if (sec->contents != NULL)
+		(*process) (sec->contents, i_shdr.sh_size, arg);
+	    }
+	}
     }
 
   return TRUE;