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author | Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> | 2021-05-20 09:16:41 +0100 |
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committer | Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> | 2021-05-20 13:35:54 +0100 |
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gdb/bfd: avoid crash when architecture is forced to csky or riscv
I built GDB with `--enable-targets=all`, then started GDB passing it
an x86-64 executable, finally I ran 'maint selftest', and observed GDB
crash like this:
BFD: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.36.50.20210519 assertion fail ../../src/bfd/hash.c:438
Aborted (core dumped)
The problem originates from two locations, for example in csky-dis.c
(csky_get_disassembler) where we do this:
const char *sec_name = NULL;
...
sec_name = get_elf_backend_data (abfd)->obj_attrs_section;
if (bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, sec_name) != NULL)
...
We end up in here because during the selftests GDB forces the
architecture to be csky, but the BFD being accessed is still of type
x86-64. As a result obj_attrs_section returns NULL, which means we
end up passing NULL to bfd_get_section_by_name. If we follow the
function calls from bfd_get_section_by_name we eventually end up in
bfd_hash_hash, which asserts that the string (i.e. the name) is not
NULL.
The same crash can be reproduced in GDB without using the selftests,
for example:
(gdb) file x86_64.elf
(gdb) start
(gdb) set architecture csky
(gdb) disassemble main
Dump of assembler code for function main:
BFD: BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.36.50.20210519 assertion fail ../../src/bfd/hash.c:438
Aborted (core dumped)
The fix I propose here is to have bfd_get_section_by_name return NULL
if name is ever NULL. For consistency I updated
bfd_get_section_by_name_if in the same way, even though I'm not
hitting any problems along that code path right now.
I looked through the source tree and removed two NULL checks in
bfd/dwarf2.c which are no longer needed, its possible that there are
additional NULL checks that could be removed, I just didn't find them.
bfd/ChangeLog:
* section.c (bfd_get_section_by_name): Return NULL if name is
NULL.
(bfd_get_section_by_name_if): Likewise.
* dwarf2.c (read_section): Remove unneeded NULL check.
(find_debug_info): Likewise.
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