Loader: Handle bad section names when loading an ELF file.

If there's a problem when reading the section names from a supposed ELF file,
this change makes gem5 print an error message as returned by libelf and die.
Previously these sorts of errors would make gem5 segfault when it tried to
access the section name through a NULL pointer.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/base/loader/elf_object.cc b/src/base/loader/elf_object.cc
index 6fcbd0ae3..1b1841a45 100644
--- a/src/base/loader/elf_object.cc
+++ b/src/base/loader/elf_object.cc
@@ -266,12 +266,20 @@ ElfObject::ElfObject(const string &_filename, int _fd,
         gelf_getshdr(section, &shdr);
         char * secName = elf_strptr(elf, ehdr.e_shstrndx, shdr.sh_name);
 
-        if (!strcmp(".text", secName)) {
-            textSecStart = shdr.sh_addr;
-        } else if (!strcmp(".data", secName)) {
-            dataSecStart = shdr.sh_addr;
-        } else if (!strcmp(".bss", secName)) {
-            bssSecStart = shdr.sh_addr;
+        if (secName) {
+            if (!strcmp(".text", secName)) {
+                textSecStart = shdr.sh_addr;
+            } else if (!strcmp(".data", secName)) {
+                dataSecStart = shdr.sh_addr;
+            } else if (!strcmp(".bss", secName)) {
+                bssSecStart = shdr.sh_addr;
+            }
+        } else {
+            Elf_Error errorNum = (Elf_Error)elf_errno();
+            if (errorNum != ELF_E_NONE) {
+                const char *errorMessage = elf_errmsg(errorNum);
+                fatal("Error from libelf: %s.\n", errorMessage);
+            }
         }
 
         section = elf_getscn(elf, ++secIdx);