From 427e4066afd13d1bf52c849849475f536e285d66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Burgess Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 09:16:41 +0100 Subject: 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. --- bfd/dwarf2.c | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'bfd/dwarf2.c') diff --git a/bfd/dwarf2.c b/bfd/dwarf2.c index 0a8a557..cf1f1d1 100644 --- a/bfd/dwarf2.c +++ b/bfd/dwarf2.c @@ -545,8 +545,7 @@ read_section (bfd * abfd, if (msec == NULL) { section_name = sec->compressed_name; - if (section_name != NULL) - msec = bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, section_name); + msec = bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, section_name); } if (msec == NULL) { @@ -4226,12 +4225,9 @@ find_debug_info (bfd *abfd, const struct dwarf_debug_section *debug_sections, return msec; look = debug_sections[debug_info].compressed_name; - if (look != NULL) - { - msec = bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, look); - if (msec != NULL) - return msec; - } + msec = bfd_get_section_by_name (abfd, look); + if (msec != NULL) + return msec; for (msec = abfd->sections; msec != NULL; msec = msec->next) if (startswith (msec->name, GNU_LINKONCE_INFO)) -- cgit v1.1