ld crashed with SIGSEGV in bfd_elf_final_link()

[Imre Deak]

Binary package hint: binutils

c.c:
extern int a(void);

int cf(void)
{
 return 2;
}

void my_exit(int i)
{
 asm ("mov %0, %%ebx\n"
      "mov %1, %%eax\n"
      "int %2\n"
      : : "i"(1), "r"(i), "i"(0x80));
 return;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
 int i = 1;
 if (argc > 1)
  i = argv[1] - '0';
 my_exit(1);
 return 1;
}

scr:
ENTRY(main)

SECTIONS {

 /* Read-only sections, merged into text segment: */
/* PROVIDE (__executable_start = SEGMENT_START("text-segment", 0x08048000));
 . = SEGMENT_START("text-segment", 0x08048000) + SIZEOF_HEADERS;
*/
 . = 0x1000;

 .text : { *(.text) }

 /DISCARD/ : { *(*) }

}

$ gcc -nodefaultlibs -Wl,-T,scr -o c c.c

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 19 17:24:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ld
Package: binutils 2.19.91.20090910-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/ld --build-id --eh-frame-hdr -m elf_i386 --hash-style=both -dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -o c -z relro /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/../../../../lib/crt1.o /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/../../../../lib/crti.o /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/crtbegin.o -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/../../../../lib -L/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/../../.. -L/usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu -T scr /tmp/ccmisLxS.o /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/crtend.o /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/../../../../lib/crtn.o
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb7ff1c03: movl $0x4,0x38(%eax)
 PC (0xb7ff1c03) ok
 source "$0x4" ok
 destination "0x38(%eax)" (0x00000038) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: binutils
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libbfd-2.19.91.20090910.so
 bfd_elf_final_link ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Title: ld crashed with SIGSEGV in bfd_elf_final_link()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-rc8-custom i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video www-data

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:elf_i386_finish_dynamic_sections (output_bfd=0x9450af8,
bfd_elf_final_link (abfd=0x9450af8, info=0x80d0440)
?? ()
?? ()
__libc_start_main (

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

confirned in 2.18.1 and up

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

not seen anymore in 14.10