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Diffstat (limited to 'bfd/elf.c')
-rw-r--r-- | bfd/elf.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* ELF executable support for BFD. Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, - 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library. @@ -326,7 +326,9 @@ bfd_elf_string_from_elf_section (bfd *abfd, SYMCOUNT specifies the number of symbols to read, starting from symbol SYMOFFSET. If any of INTSYM_BUF, EXTSYM_BUF or EXTSHNDX_BUF are non-NULL, they are used to store the internal symbols, external - symbols, and symbol section index extensions, respectively. */ + symbols, and symbol section index extensions, respectively. + Returns a pointer to the internal symbol buffer (malloced if necessary) + or NULL if there were no symbols or some kind of problem. */ Elf_Internal_Sym * bfd_elf_get_elf_syms (bfd *ibfd, @@ -361,6 +363,9 @@ bfd_elf_get_elf_syms (bfd *ibfd, alloc_ext = NULL; alloc_extshndx = NULL; bed = get_elf_backend_data (ibfd); + /* PR ld/5692: Check for non-ELF files. */ + if (bed == NULL) + return NULL; extsym_size = bed->s->sizeof_sym; amt = symcount * extsym_size; pos = symtab_hdr->sh_offset + symoffset * extsym_size; |