Re: Is there a fix for PR 12451

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi H.J.

> Is there is a fix for
> http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12451

Does this patch fix it ?

Cheers
  Nick

Index: bfd/compress.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/bfd/compress.c,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -3 -p -r1.8 compress.c
--- bfd/compress.c	6 Mar 2011 18:37:07 -0000	1.8
+++ bfd/compress.c	18 Mar 2011 16:35:09 -0000
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ bfd_get_full_section_contents (bfd *abfd
     case COMPRESS_SECTION_NONE:
       if (p == NULL)
 	{
-	  p = (bfd_byte *) bfd_malloc (sz);
+	  p = (bfd_byte *) bfd_zmalloc (sz);
 	  if (p == NULL)
 	    return FALSE;
 	}
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ bfd_get_full_section_contents (bfd *abfd
       if (!ret)
 	goto fail_compressed;

-      uncompressed_buffer = (bfd_byte *) bfd_malloc (uncompressed_size);
+      uncompressed_buffer = (bfd_byte *) bfd_zmalloc (uncompressed_size);
       if (uncompressed_buffer == NULL)
 	goto fail_compressed;

Index: bfd/elfcode.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/bfd/elfcode.h,v
retrieving revision 1.105
diff -u -3 -p -r1.105 elfcode.h
--- bfd/elfcode.h	14 Mar 2011 15:54:58 -0000	1.105
+++ bfd/elfcode.h	18 Mar 2011 16:35:09 -0000
@@ -1159,6 +1159,24 @@ elf_checksum_contents (bfd *abfd,

       if (i_shdr.contents)
 	(*process) (i_shdr.contents, i_shdr.sh_size, arg);
+      else
+	{
+	  asection *sec;
+
+	  sec = bfd_section_from_elf_index (abfd, count);
+	  if (sec != NULL)
+	    {
+	      if (sec->contents == NULL)
+		{
+		  /* Force rereading from file.  */
+		  sec->flags &= ~SEC_IN_MEMORY;
+		  if (! bfd_malloc_and_get_section (abfd, sec, & sec->contents))
+		    continue;
+		}
+	      if (sec->contents != NULL)
+		(*process) (sec->contents, i_shdr.sh_size, arg);
+	    }
+	}
     }

   return TRUE;