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authorTerry Guo <terry.guo@arm.com>2015-01-12 21:30:00 +1030
committerAlan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>2015-01-12 21:34:52 +1030
commit3c758495736df25d141a4ea13c7aba24f5bb9753 (patch)
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Fix GDB crash caused by discarding grouped debug sections
Keep a group containing just debug sections or the other special sections we currently mark against garbage collection. * elflink.c (_bfd_elf_gc_mark_debug_special_section_group): New function. (_bfd_elf_gc_mark_extra_sections): Use it.
Diffstat (limited to 'bfd')
-rw-r--r--bfd/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--bfd/elflink.c57
2 files changed, 57 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 234d559..a3e1d8f 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2015-01-12 Terry Guo <terry.guo@arm.com>
+
+ * elflink.c (_bfd_elf_gc_mark_debug_special_section_group): New
+ function.
+ (_bfd_elf_gc_mark_extra_sections): Use it.
+
2015-01-11 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
PR ld/17827
diff --git a/bfd/elflink.c b/bfd/elflink.c
index 66cf1ed..73d2360 100644
--- a/bfd/elflink.c
+++ b/bfd/elflink.c
@@ -11971,6 +11971,47 @@ _bfd_elf_gc_mark (struct bfd_link_info *info,
return ret;
}
+/* Scan and mark sections in a special or debug section group. */
+
+static void
+_bfd_elf_gc_mark_debug_special_section_group (asection *grp)
+{
+ /* Point to first section of section group. */
+ asection *ssec;
+ /* Used to iterate the section group. */
+ asection *msec;
+
+ bfd_boolean is_special_grp = TRUE;
+ bfd_boolean is_debug_grp = TRUE;
+
+ /* First scan to see if group contains any section other than debug
+ and special section. */
+ ssec = msec = elf_next_in_group (grp);
+ do
+ {
+ if ((msec->flags & SEC_DEBUGGING) == 0)
+ is_debug_grp = FALSE;
+
+ if ((msec->flags & (SEC_ALLOC | SEC_LOAD | SEC_RELOC)) != 0)
+ is_special_grp = FALSE;
+
+ msec = elf_next_in_group (msec);
+ }
+ while (msec != ssec);
+
+ /* If this is a pure debug section group or pure special section group,
+ keep all sections in this group. */
+ if (is_debug_grp || is_special_grp)
+ {
+ do
+ {
+ msec->gc_mark = 1;
+ msec = elf_next_in_group (msec);
+ }
+ while (msec != ssec);
+ }
+}
+
/* Keep debug and special sections. */
bfd_boolean
@@ -12011,13 +12052,17 @@ _bfd_elf_gc_mark_extra_sections (struct bfd_link_info *info,
continue;
/* Keep debug and special sections like .comment when they are
- not part of a group, or when we have single-member groups. */
+ not part of a group. Also keep section groups that contain
+ just debug sections or special sections. */
for (isec = ibfd->sections; isec != NULL; isec = isec->next)
- if ((elf_next_in_group (isec) == NULL
- || elf_next_in_group (isec) == isec)
- && ((isec->flags & SEC_DEBUGGING) != 0
- || (isec->flags & (SEC_ALLOC | SEC_LOAD | SEC_RELOC)) == 0))
- isec->gc_mark = 1;
+ {
+ if ((isec->flags & SEC_GROUP) != 0)
+ _bfd_elf_gc_mark_debug_special_section_group (isec);
+ else if (((isec->flags & SEC_DEBUGGING) != 0
+ || (isec->flags & (SEC_ALLOC | SEC_LOAD | SEC_RELOC)) == 0)
+ && elf_next_in_group (isec) == NULL)
+ isec->gc_mark = 1;
+ }
if (! debug_frag_seen)
continue;