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Another generic ELF target assertion failure
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 14:27:03 +0930
- Subject: Another generic ELF target assertion failure
After fixing the ld-elf/pr22836-1a segmentation fault we run into an
assertion failure due to the generic ELF target not removing empty
SHT_GROUP sections. Avoid that.
* elf.c (bfd_elf_set_group_contents): Exit on zero size section.
diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index 952e4bfe11..b463f1df8b 100644
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -3472,7 +3472,8 @@ bfd_elf_set_group_contents (bfd *abfd, asection *sec, void *failedptrarg)
/* Ignore linker created group section. See elfNN_ia64_object_p in
elfxx-ia64.c. */
- if (((sec->flags & (SEC_GROUP | SEC_LINKER_CREATED)) != SEC_GROUP)
+ if ((sec->flags & (SEC_GROUP | SEC_LINKER_CREATED)) != SEC_GROUP
+ || sec->size == 0
|| *failedptr)
return;
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM