Fail when string merge can't alloc memory

I was looking at Debian bug #874674 again today, and think I might
have spotted the problem.  It appears that merge.c tries to cope with
memory allocation failures in some circumstances, but doesn't quite
manage to get everything right.  This patch will make ld report memory
allocation failures instead of silently not merging strings.

	* merge.c (merge_strings): Return FALSE on malloc failure.
	(_bfd_merge_sections): Return failures from record_section and
	merge_strings.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/bfd/merge.c b/bfd/merge.c
index a1792a8..ad8db83 100644
--- a/bfd/merge.c
+++ b/bfd/merge.c
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ is_suffix (const struct sec_merge_hash_entry *A,
 
 /* This is a helper function for _bfd_merge_sections.  It attempts to
    merge strings matching suffixes of longer strings.  */
-static void
+static bfd_boolean
 merge_strings (struct sec_merge_info *sinfo)
 {
   struct sec_merge_hash_entry **array, **a, *e;
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ merge_strings (struct sec_merge_info *sinfo)
   amt = sinfo->htab->size * sizeof (struct sec_merge_hash_entry *);
   array = (struct sec_merge_hash_entry **) bfd_malloc (amt);
   if (array == NULL)
-    goto alloc_failure;
+    return FALSE;
 
   for (e = sinfo->htab->first, a = array; e; e = e->next)
     if (e->alignment)
@@ -666,9 +666,7 @@ merge_strings (struct sec_merge_info *sinfo)
 	}
     }
 
-alloc_failure:
-  if (array)
-    free (array);
+  free (array);
 
   /* Now assign positions to the strings we want to keep.  */
   size = 0;
@@ -714,6 +712,7 @@ alloc_failure:
 	    e->u.index = e->u.suffix->u.index + (e->u.suffix->len - e->len);
 	  }
       }
+  return TRUE;
 }
 
 /* This function is called once after all SEC_MERGE sections are registered
@@ -748,7 +747,7 @@ _bfd_merge_sections (bfd *abfd,
 	      (*remove_hook) (abfd, secinfo->sec);
 	  }
 	else if (! record_section (sinfo, secinfo))
-	  break;
+	  return FALSE;
 
       if (secinfo)
 	continue;
@@ -757,7 +756,10 @@ _bfd_merge_sections (bfd *abfd,
 	continue;
 
       if (sinfo->htab->strings)
-	merge_strings (sinfo);
+	{
+	  if (!merge_strings (sinfo))
+	    return FALSE;
+	}
       else
 	{
 	  struct sec_merge_hash_entry *e;