From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 15:12:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: readelf: Only check for out of bounds local symbols in object files
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6d7e5bcca578f3fa21d89275d96986ad5be35b08;p=thirdparty%2Fbinutils-gdb.git

readelf: Only check for out of bounds local symbols in object files
---

diff --git a/binutils/readelf.c b/binutils/readelf.c
index b001d717746..9e89a54174e 100644
--- a/binutils/readelf.c
+++ b/binutils/readelf.c
@@ -14811,17 +14811,17 @@ print_symbol (Filedata *           filedata,
     warn (_("local symbol %" PRIu64 " found at index >= %s's sh_info value of %u\n"),
 	  symbol_index, printable_section_name (filedata, section), section->sh_info);
 
-  /* Local symbols whose value is larger than their section's size are suspicious
-     especially if that section is mergeable - and hence might change offsets of
-     the contents inside the section.
-     Note - for some reason we can get mapping symbols that do not relate to their
+  /* Local symbols (in objec files) whose value is larger than their section's
+     size are suspicious especially if that section is mergeable - and hence
+     might change offsets of the contents inside the section.   Note - for
+     some reason we can get mapping symbols that do not relate to their
      section's contents - so we ignore those type of symbol as well.  */
   if (ELF_ST_BIND (psym->st_info) == STB_LOCAL
+      && filedata->file_header.e_type == ET_REL
       && ! is_special
       && is_valid
       && psym->st_shndx < filedata->file_header.e_shnum
       && filedata->section_headers != NULL
-      /* FIXME: Should we warn for non-mergeable sections ? */
       && (filedata->section_headers[psym->st_shndx].sh_flags & SHF_MERGE)
       && psym->st_value > filedata->section_headers[psym->st_shndx].sh_size
       && ! is_mapping_symbol (strtab + psym->st_name))