From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2025 22:33:37 +0000 (+1030)
Subject: PR 33455 SEGV in vfinfo at ldmisc.c:527
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PR 33455 SEGV in vfinfo at ldmisc.c:527

A reloc howto set up with EMPTY_HOWTO has a NULL name.  More than one
place emitting diagnostics assumes a reloc howto won't have a NULL
name.

	PR 33455
	* coffcode.h (coff_slurp_reloc_table): Don't allow a howto with
	a NULL name.
---

diff --git a/bfd/coffcode.h b/bfd/coffcode.h
index 1e5acc0032c..ce1e39131b4 100644
--- a/bfd/coffcode.h
+++ b/bfd/coffcode.h
@@ -5345,7 +5345,7 @@ coff_slurp_reloc_table (bfd * abfd, sec_ptr asect, asymbol ** symbols)
       RTYPE2HOWTO (cache_ptr, &dst);
 #endif	/* RELOC_PROCESSING */
 
-      if (cache_ptr->howto == NULL)
+      if (cache_ptr->howto == NULL || cache_ptr->howto->name == NULL)
 	{
 	  _bfd_error_handler
 	    /* xgettext:c-format */