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authorAlex Coplan <alex.coplan@arm.com>2022-12-01 17:36:02 +0000
committerAlex Coplan <alex.coplan@arm.com>2022-12-01 17:36:02 +0000
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varasm: Fix type confusion bug
This patch fixes a type confusion bug in varasm.cc:assemble_variable. The problem is that the current code calls: sect = get_variable_section (decl, false); and then accesses sect->named.name without checking whether the section is in fact a named section. In the surrounding else clause, we only know that SECTION_STYLE (sect) != SECTION_NOSWITCH, so it is possible that the section is an unnamed section. In practice, this means that we end up doing a wild string compare between a function pointer and the string literal ".vtable_map_vars". This is because sect->named.name aliases sect->unnamed.callback in the section union. This can be seen in GDB with a simple testcase such as "int x;". This patch fixes the issue by checking the SECTION_STYLE of the section is in fact SECTION_NAMED before trying to do the string comparison. We drop the existing check of whether sect->named.name is non-NULL because this should presumably always be the case for a named section. gcc/ChangeLog: * varasm.cc (assemble_variable): Fix type confusion bug when checking for ".vtable_map_vars" section.
Diffstat (limited to 'gcc')
-rw-r--r--gcc/varasm.cc2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/varasm.cc b/gcc/varasm.cc
index 9dfbebb..6851201b 100644
--- a/gcc/varasm.cc
+++ b/gcc/varasm.cc
@@ -2400,7 +2400,7 @@ assemble_variable (tree decl, int top_level ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
else
{
/* Special-case handling of vtv comdat sections. */
- if (sect->named.name
+ if (SECTION_STYLE (sect) == SECTION_NAMED
&& (strcmp (sect->named.name, ".vtable_map_vars") == 0))
handle_vtv_comdat_section (sect, decl);
else