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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2022-02-02 17:06:22 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2022-02-02 17:06:22 +0000
commit41ba8b76ccc5bb01507beb3b49df039264bcf34a (patch)
tree76fc11ea2ebdc28c044707e89c67625f66b7f83e /bfd/dwarf2.c
parentgdb: fix formatting for help set/show extended-prompt (diff)
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Stop the BFD library complaining about compressed dwarf debug string sections being too big.
PR 28834 * dwarf2.c (read_section): Change the heuristic that checks for overlarge dwarf debug info sections.
Diffstat (limited to 'bfd/dwarf2.c')
-rw-r--r--bfd/dwarf2.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/dwarf2.c b/bfd/dwarf2.c
index be9983edbf0..fdf071c36e9 100644
--- a/bfd/dwarf2.c
+++ b/bfd/dwarf2.c
@@ -557,10 +557,14 @@ read_section (bfd * abfd,
amt = bfd_get_section_limit_octets (abfd, msec);
filesize = bfd_get_file_size (abfd);
- if (amt >= filesize)
+ /* PR 28834: A compressed debug section could well decompress to a size
+ larger than the file, so we choose an arbitrary modifier of 10x in
+ the test below. If this ever turns out to be insufficient, it can
+ be changed by a future update. */
+ if (amt >= filesize * 10)
{
/* PR 26946 */
- _bfd_error_handler (_("DWARF error: section %s is larger than its filesize! (0x%lx vs 0x%lx)"),
+ _bfd_error_handler (_("DWARF error: section %s is larger than 10x its filesize! (0x%lx vs 0x%lx)"),
section_name, (long) amt, (long) filesize);
bfd_set_error (bfd_error_bad_value);
return false;