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PATCH: Re: EH frame optimization bug


On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:43:45PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:05:59PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Testcase derived from glibc.  Take the attached files and link them:
> >   ld -o bin connect.o send.o dumb.o
> > 
> > readelf -wf bin -> segfault.
> > 
> > The problem is that we've got GAS-produced .eh_frame sections that look like
> > this:
> >   [ 5] .eh_frame         PROGBITS        00000000 000098 000040 00   A  0  0  4
> > 
> > 00000000 00000012 00000000 CIE
> > 
> > 00000016 00000026 0000001a FDE cie=00000000 pc=0000001e..00000074
> > 
> > Then we have two almost identical object files (built from the same source
> > file, actually).  We optimize them to share a CIE.
> > 
> > 00000000 00000012 00000000 CIE
> > 00000016 00000026 0000001a FDE cie=00000000 pc=08048080..080480d6
> > 00000040 00000026 00000044 FDE cie=00000000 pc=080480e0..08048136
> > 
> > That second FDE now ends at 0x6a.  The next .eh_frame section is align-4. 
> > Two bytes padding get added, and everything blows up.
> > 
> > Something similar came up a few months ago but I can't find the reference
> > now.  What's the right thing to do here?  My instinct says, grow the last
> > FDE before the padding, but I have no idea how to do that.  Is the alignment
> > of a .eh_frame section mandated?
> 

How about this patch?


H.J.
---
2003-10-02  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>

	* elf-eh-frame.c (_bfd_elf_write_section_eh_frame): Pad the
	last FDE if needed.

--- bfd/elf-eh-frame.c.pad	2003-08-07 09:04:30.000000000 -0700
+++ bfd/elf-eh-frame.c	2003-10-02 18:03:43.000000000 -0700
@@ -1026,6 +1026,38 @@ _bfd_elf_write_section_eh_frame (bfd *ab
 					   and 3xDW_CFA_nop as pad  */
       p += 16;
     }
+  else
+    {
+      int old_fill = (sec->_raw_size
+		      & ((1 << sec->alignment_power) - 1));
+      int new_fill = (sec->_cooked_size
+		      & ((1 << sec->alignment_power) - 1));
+      int needed = old_fill - new_fill;
+
+      if (needed)
+	{
+	  unsigned long length;
+
+	  if (sec_info->entry[sec_info->count - 1].cie)
+	    abort ();
+
+	  needed = (((1 << sec->alignment_power) + needed)
+		    & ((1 << sec->alignment_power) - 1));
+	 
+	  buf = contents + sec_info->entry[sec_info->count - 1].new_offset;
+
+	  /* Update length.  */
+	  length = bfd_get_32 (abfd, buf) + needed;
+	  bfd_put_32 (abfd, length, buf);
+
+	  /* Pad it with DW_CFA_nop  */
+	  memset (p, 0, needed);
+	  p += needed;
+
+	  sec_info->entry[sec_info->count - 1].size += needed;
+	  sec->_cooked_size += needed;
+	}
+    }
 
   BFD_ASSERT ((bfd_size_type) (p - contents) == sec->_cooked_size);
 


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