Mergable sections can be the target of a relocation, but only if they
contain items of the same size. So only reject mergable string sections
as target of a relocation section.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <m...@redhat.com>
---
src/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
src/elflint.c | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index f459e11..0d2b1d6 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2015-10-16 Mark Wielaard <m...@redhat.com>
+
+ * elflint.c (check_reloc_shdr): Reject only desthdrs if they have both
+ SHF_MERGE and SHF_STRINGS set.
+
2015-10-13 Jose E. Marchesi <jose.march...@oracle.com>
* elflint.c (check_sections): Do not rely on
diff --git a/src/elflint.c b/src/elflint.c
index 0a6f0df..eada4d5 100644
--- a/src/elflint.c
+++ b/src/elflint.c
@@ -1254,9 +1254,10 @@ section [%2d] '%s': sh_info should be zero\n"),
}
}
- if (((*destshdrp)->sh_flags & (SHF_MERGE | SHF_STRINGS)) != 0)
+ if ((((*destshdrp)->sh_flags & SHF_MERGE) != 0)
+ && ((*destshdrp)->sh_flags & SHF_STRINGS) != 0)
ERROR (gettext ("\
-section [%2d] '%s': no relocations for merge-able sections possible\n"),
+section [%2d] '%s': no relocations for merge-able string sections possible\n"),
idx, section_name (ebl, idx));
}
}
--
2.4.3
