Fix a commit 861fb55ab5 ("Defer allocation of R_MIPS_REL32 GOT
slots"), <https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2008-08/msg00096.html>,
regression and a more recent:
FAIL: ld-unique/pr21529
new LD test case failure, observed with all the relevant MIPS targets
whenever the linker is invoked with one or more ELF inputs and the
output format set to `binary'.
The culprit is a segmentation fault caused in `mips_before_allocation'
by a null pointer dereference, where an attempt is made to access the
ELF file header's `e_flags' member, for the purpose of determining
whether to produce a PLT and copy relocations, without first checking
that the output BFD is ELF. The `e_flags' member is stored in BFD's
private data pointed to by `tdep', which in the case of the `binary' BFD
is null, causing the segmentation fault. With other non-ELF BFDs such
as SREC `tdep' is not null and consequently no crash may happen and in
that case random data will be interpreted as it was `e_flags'.
Disable the access to `e_flags' then and all the associated checks and
consequently never produce a PLT and copy relocations if output is not a
MIPS ELF BFD, matching `_bfd_mips_elf_merge_private_bfd_data' that does
not process `e_flags' in that case either and therefore does not let us
decide here anyway if all the input objects included in the link are
suitable for use with a PLT and copy relocations.
ld/
* emultempl/mipself.em (mips_before_allocation): Avoid ELF
processing if not MIPS ELF.
* testsuite/ld-mips-elf/binary.d: New test.
* testsuite/ld-mips-elf/binary.ld: New test linker script.
* testsuite/ld-mips-elf/binary.s: New test source.
* testsuite/ld-mips-elf/mips-elf.exp: Run the new test.
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The Solaris linker normally exports all dynamic symbols from an
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HP/UX 9.01 has a shell bug that causes the linker scripts to be
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* Build and install bash, and build with "make SHELL=bash".
* Update to a version of HP/UX with a working shell (e.g., 9.05).
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