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Re: [patch bfd]: Prevent possible buffer overflow on pdata-section sorting

From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
To: Kai Tietz <ktietz70 at googlemail dot com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 18:22:38 +0930
Subject: Re: [patch bfd]: Prevent possible buffer overflow on pdata-section sorting
References: <BANLkTimv7dy1SPBi=dKP+fnWayX13VpU7g@mail.gmail.com> <20110407010943.GW19002@bubble.grove.modra.org> <BANLkTi=DMtBm2a8ZpmRDEKkOgx3=fHVFtA@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTinnUe6LhJDrv1GrO458yvL9rn=8TA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 08:15:42AM +0200, Kai Tietz wrote:
> Hmm, not sure.

Well, I'm 99% sure. :-)  rawsize on an output section, if non-zero, is
just a stale size at bfd_final_link.

Hmm.  Which means bfd_get_section_contents is wrong to look at rawsize
on output sections.  Seems I have some bugs to fix.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

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