From a3fc941881e4224eff3ef20ba1e784026bcc17fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 16:43:01 +0100
Subject: Stop the linker from accepting executable ELF files as inputs to
 other links.

	PR 26047
	* ldelf.c (ldelf_after_open): Fail if attempting to link one
	executable into another.
---
 ld/ldelf.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'ld/ldelf.c')

diff --git a/ld/ldelf.c b/ld/ldelf.c
index efb4b77..475fd00 100644
--- a/ld/ldelf.c
+++ b/ld/ldelf.c
@@ -1065,6 +1065,13 @@ ldelf_after_open (int use_libpath, int native, int is_linux, int is_freebsd,
 	{
 	  int type = 0;
 
+	  if (bfd_link_executable (& link_info)
+	      && elf_tdata (abfd)->elf_header->e_type == ET_EXEC)
+	    {
+	      einfo (_("%F%P: cannot use executable file '%pB' as input to a link\n"),
+		     abfd);
+	    }
+
 	  if (bfd_input_just_syms (abfd))
 	    continue;
 
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