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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2015-02-27 15:38:32 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2015-02-27 15:40:49 +0000
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Fixes a problem recognizing libraries created by Visual Studio.
PR binutils/17910 * coffgen.c (_bfd_coff_internal_syment_name): Only check for string length overflow when the string table length is actually set.
Diffstat (limited to 'bfd')
-rw-r--r--bfd/ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--bfd/coffgen.c5
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index dea16ae..1b223f9 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2015-02-27 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+ PR binutils/17910
+ * coffgen.c (_bfd_coff_internal_syment_name): Only check for
+ string length overflow when the string table length is actually
+ set.
+
2015-02-27 Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@arm.com>
* bfd/bfd-in2.h: Regenerate.
diff --git a/bfd/coffgen.c b/bfd/coffgen.c
index aa01559..83673d4 100644
--- a/bfd/coffgen.c
+++ b/bfd/coffgen.c
@@ -468,7 +468,10 @@ _bfd_coff_internal_syment_name (bfd *abfd,
if (strings == NULL)
return NULL;
}
- if (sym->_n._n_n._n_offset >= obj_coff_strings_len (abfd))
+ /* PR 17910: Only check for string overflow if the length has been set.
+ Some DLLs, eg those produced by Visual Studio, may not set the length field. */
+ if (obj_coff_strings_len (abfd) > 0
+ && sym->_n._n_n._n_offset >= obj_coff_strings_len (abfd))
return NULL;
return strings + sym->_n._n_n._n_offset;
}