From: Leon Winter <winter-gcc@bfw-online.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:53:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix erroneous relocations applied to absolute symbols in COFF format targets.
X-Git-Tag: users/ARM/embedded-gdb-2_26-branch-2016q1~6^2~76
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d0509e7f90c3131357c2d4f1d37a989eb3bb4a31;p=thirdparty%2Fbinutils-gdb.git

Fix erroneous relocations applied to absolute symbols in COFF format targets.

	PR ld/19623
	* cofflink.c (_bfd_coff_generic_relocate_section): Do not apply
	relocations against absolute symbols.
---

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 7b2b0013d33..44b70d4978c 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2016-03-15  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	Backport from master:
+	2016-03-09  Leon Winter  <winter-gcc@bfw-online.de>
+
+	PR ld/19623
+	* cofflink.c (_bfd_coff_generic_relocate_section): Do not apply
+	relocations against absolute symbols.
+
 2016-03-14  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
 
 	Backport from master
diff --git a/bfd/cofflink.c b/bfd/cofflink.c
index 8d98fec2146..88eb2b33e76 100644
--- a/bfd/cofflink.c
+++ b/bfd/cofflink.c
@@ -2977,6 +2977,12 @@ _bfd_coff_generic_relocate_section (bfd *output_bfd,
 	  else
 	    {
 	      sec = sections[symndx];
+
+	      /* PR 19623: Relocations against symbols in
+		 the absolute sections should ignored.  */
+              if (bfd_is_abs_section (sec))
+		continue;
+
               val = (sec->output_section->vma
 		     + sec->output_offset
 		     + sym->n_value);