ld.bfd crashed with SIGSEGV in bfd_elf_final_link()

[Paul Crawford]

Binary package hint: binutils

Was building a program and I think this was triggered by attempting to link with 32-bit libraries when building on a 64-bit system. The output of 'make' gave this sort of message:

gcc -Wall -DLINUX -O2 -DDUNDEE_COMPILE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include -I${SWDEV} -I../../DCPlib -o beacon bmain.o bprocess.o message.o ${SWDEV}/lib/libsat.a ${SWDEV}/lib/libutils.a -lm -lncurses -lm ${SWDEV}/lib/libdcp.a ${SWDEV}/lib/libsat.a ${SWDEV}/lib/libutils.a -lm -lncurses
collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped
/usr/bin/ld: i386 architecture of input file `/home/paul/win/swdev/lib/libsat.a(jnow.o)' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output

Using 10.04 LTS with 64-bit version on quad core "Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz" machine. I have it dual-boot so I also have 32-bit 10.04 for some things that need it, hence the library issue.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04

I expect, under these circumstances, to get a warning and error exit, not a core-dump due to segfault.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: binutils 2.20.1-3ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-31.61-generic 2.6.32.32+drm33.14
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 22 11:42:12 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ld.bfd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/ld --build-id --eh-frame-hdr -m elf_x86_64 --hash-style=both -dynamic-linker /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -o beacon -z relro /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.3/../../../../lib/crt1.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.3/../../../../lib/crti.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.3/crtbegin.o -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.3 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.3 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.3/../../../../lib -L/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.3/../../.. -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu bmain.o bprocess.o message.o /home/username/win/swdev/lib/libsat.a /home/username/win/swdev/lib/libutils.a -lm -lncurses -lm /home/username/win/swdev/lib/libdcp.a /home/username/win/swdev/lib/libsat.a /home/username/win/swdev/lib/libutils.a -lm -lncurses -lgcc --as-needed -lgcc_s --no-as-needed -lc -lgcc --as-needed -lgcc_s --no-as-needed /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.3/crtend.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.3/../../../../lib/crtn.o
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x2b3d2ed5255a: mov %rdx,0x30(%rax)
 PC (0x2b3d2ed5255a) ok
 source "%rdx" ok
 destination "0x30(%rax)" (0x200000030) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: binutils
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libbfd-2.20.1-system.20100303.so
 bfd_elf_final_link ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
Title: ld.bfd crashed with SIGSEGV in bfd_elf_final_link()
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StacktraceTop:
 elf64_x86_64_relocate_section (
 bfd_elf_final_link (abfd=<value optimized out>,
 ldwrite () at ../../ld/ldwrite.c:568
 main (argc=46, argv=0x7fff139ce7f8)

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

please provide the object files needed for the link step.
is this reproducible with newer ubuntu versions (e.g. 12.04 LTS, or 12.10 development)?

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