2009-08-03 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>

	PR binutils/10363
	* elf.c (bfd_elf_string_from_elf_section): Return NULL on
	invalid string offset.

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 4107449..0dc3695 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2009-08-03  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
 
+       PR binutils/10363
+       * elf.c (bfd_elf_string_from_elf_section): Return NULL on
+       invalid string offset.
+
+2009-08-03  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+
        PR ld/10433
        * elf-ifunc.c (_bfd_elf_allocate_ifunc_dyn_relocs): Set got
        to htab->init_got_offset and plt to htab->init_plt_offset

diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index f27c607..9863a3a 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ bfd_elf_string_from_elf_section (bfd *abfd,
         (shindex == shstrndx && strindex == hdr->sh_name
          ? ".shstrtab"
          : bfd_elf_string_from_elf_section (abfd, shstrndx, hdr->sh_name)));
-      return "";
+      return NULL;
     }
 
   return ((char *) hdr->contents) + strindex;