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authorJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>2021-04-26 10:41:35 +0200
committerJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>2021-04-26 10:41:35 +0200
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x86: correct overflow checking for 16-bit PC-relative relocs
The only insn requiring a truly 16-bit PC-relative relocation outside of 16-bit mode is XBEGIN (with an operand size override). For it, the relocation generated should behave similar to 8- and (for 64-bit) 32-bit PC-relatives ones, i.e. be checked for a signed value to fit the field. This same mode is also correct for 16-bit code. Outside of 16-bit code, branches with operand size overrides act in a truly PC-relative way only when living in the low 32k of address space, as they truncate rIP to 16 bits. This can't be expressed by a PC-relative relocation. Putting in place a new testcase, I'd like to note that the two existing ones (pcrel16 and pcrel16abs) appear to be pretty pointless: They don't expect any error despite supposedly checking for overflow, and in fact there can't possibly be any error for the - former since gas doesn't emit any relocation in the first place there, - latter because the way the relocation gets expressed by gas doesn't allow the linker to notice the overflow; it should be detected by gas if at all, but see above (an error would be reported here for x86-64 afaict, but this test doesn't get re-used there).
Diffstat (limited to 'bfd/elf64-x86-64.c')
-rw-r--r--bfd/elf64-x86-64.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/elf64-x86-64.c b/bfd/elf64-x86-64.c
index 1204b29..840555c 100644
--- a/bfd/elf64-x86-64.c
+++ b/bfd/elf64-x86-64.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static reloc_howto_type x86_64_elf_howto_table[] =
false),
HOWTO(R_X86_64_16, 0, 1, 16, false, 0, complain_overflow_bitfield,
bfd_elf_generic_reloc, "R_X86_64_16", false, 0xffff, 0xffff, false),
- HOWTO(R_X86_64_PC16,0, 1, 16, true, 0, complain_overflow_bitfield,
+ HOWTO(R_X86_64_PC16, 0, 1, 16, true, 0, complain_overflow_signed,
bfd_elf_generic_reloc, "R_X86_64_PC16", false, 0xffff, 0xffff, true),
HOWTO(R_X86_64_8, 0, 0, 8, false, 0, complain_overflow_bitfield,
bfd_elf_generic_reloc, "R_X86_64_8", false, 0xff, 0xff, false),