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authorNick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>2019-07-11 16:26:54 +0100
committerNick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>2019-10-03 17:04:55 +0100
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libctf, bfd: fix ctf_bfdopen_ctfsect opening symbol and string sections
The code in ctf_bfdopen_ctfsect (which is the ultimate place where you end up if you use ctf_open to open a CTF file and pull in the ELF string and symbol tables) was written before it was possible to actually test it, since the linker was not written. Now it is, it turns out that the previous code was completely nonfunctional: it assumed that you could load the symbol table via bfd_section_from_elf_index (...,elf_onesymtab()) and the string table via bfd_section_from_elf_index on the sh_link. Unfortunately BFD loads neither of these sections in the conventional fashion it uses for most others: the symbol table is immediately converted into internal form (which is useless for our purposes, since we also have to work in the absence of BFD for readelf, etc) and the string table is loaded specially via bfd_elf_get_str_section which is private to bfd/elf.c. So make this function public, export it in elf-bfd.h, and use it from libctf, which does something similar to what bfd_elf_sym_name and bfd_elf_string_from_elf_section do. Similarly, load the symbol table manually using bfd_elf_get_elf_syms and throw away the internal form it generates for us (we never use it). BFD allocates the strtab for us via bfd_alloc, so we can leave BFD to deallocate it: we allocate the symbol table ourselves before calling bfd_elf_get_elf_syms, so we still have to free it. Also change the rules around what you are allowed to provide: It is useful to provide a string section but no symbol table, because CTF sections can legitimately have no function info or data object sections while relying on the ELF strtab for some of their strings. So allow that combination. v4: adjust to upstream changes. ctf_bfdopen_ctfsect's first parameter is potentially unused again (if BFD is not in use for this link due to not supporting an ELF target). v5: fix tabdamage. bfd/ * elf-bfd.h (bfd_elf_get_str_section): Add. * elf.c (bfd_elf_get_str_section): No longer static. libctf/ * ctf-open-bfd.c: Add <assert.h>. (ctf_bfdopen_ctfsect): Open string and symbol tables using techniques borrowed from bfd_elf_sym_name. (ctf_new_archive_internal): Improve comment. * ctf-archive.c (ctf_arc_close): Do not free the ctfi_strsect. * ctf-open.c (ctf_bufopen): Allow opening with a string section but no symbol section, but not vice versa.
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