svn commit: r239962 - head/contrib/binutils/binutils

Sat Sep 1 11:06:47 UTC 2012

On 2012-09-01 03:00, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Dimitry Andric <dim at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Author: dim
>> Date: Fri Aug 31 23:28:41 2012
>> New Revision: 239962
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/239962
>>
>> Log:
>>    Fix a twelve year old bug in readelf: when process_dynamic_segment()
>>    encounters a DT_RUNPATH entry, the global dynamic_info[] array is
>>    overrun, causing some other global variable to be overwritten.
...
>      Nice! Hopefully this fixes the random tinderbox crashes I've seen!

Koop said it occurred semi-randomly during the openjdk7 port build.  It
apparently runs "readelf -d" on a whole bunch of produced libraries.  So
I hope those are now gone. :)

> Has this been fixed upstream?

Yes, in 2009:

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=839d59b5c25836c05cc5abb401e0b5fe17a98981