2009-08-03 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>

	PR binutils/10363
	* elf.c (bfd_elf_string_from_elf_section): Return NULL on
	invalid string offset.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index f27c607..9863a3a 100644
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ bfd_elf_string_from_elf_section (bfd *abfd,
 	 (shindex == shstrndx && strindex == hdr->sh_name
 	  ? ".shstrtab"
 	  : bfd_elf_string_from_elf_section (abfd, shstrndx, hdr->sh_name)));
-      return "";
+      return NULL;
     }
 
   return ((char *) hdr->contents) + strindex;