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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2017-05-02 16:54:53 +0100
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2017-05-02 16:55:31 +0100
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Don't merge notes when the relocs associated with them cannot be reliably deleted.
* objcopy.c (merge_gnu_build_notes): Disable merge if there are more internal relocs than external relocs.
-rw-r--r--binutils/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--binutils/objcopy.c7
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index aef436d..d13dbb6 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2017-05-02 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+ * objcopy.c (merge_gnu_build_notes): Disable merge if there are
+ more internal relocs than external relocs.
+
2017-05-02 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com>
* testsuite/binutils-all/mips/mips16-undecoded.d: Adjust the
diff --git a/binutils/objcopy.c b/binutils/objcopy.c
index 42c7775..36952ec 100644
--- a/binutils/objcopy.c
+++ b/binutils/objcopy.c
@@ -2137,6 +2137,13 @@ merge_gnu_build_notes (bfd * abfd, asection * sec, bfd_size_type size, bfd_byte
relcount = 0;
}
+ /* A few targets (eg MIPS, SPARC) create multiple internal relocs to
+ represent a single external reloc. Unfortunately the current BFD
+ API does not handle deleting relocs in such situations very well
+ and so it is unsafe to proceed. */
+ if (relcount > sec->reloc_count)
+ goto done;
+
/* Eliminate the duplicates. */
new = new_contents = xmalloc (size);
for (pnote = pnotes, old = contents;