From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 14:42:12 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Fix a problem in readelf where memcpy could be called with a NULL second argument.
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=21b65bac42c899df2049cdbd472b2e7242a40fbe;p=binutils-gdb.git

Fix a problem in readelf where memcpy could be called with a NULL second argument.

	* readelf.c (request_dump_bynumber): Only call memcpy if
	dump_sects is not NULL.
---

diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index 5ab28f8079b..4b3a746db95 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2016-09-06  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+	* readelf.c (request_dump_bynumber): Only call memcpy if
+	dump_sects is not NULL.
+
 2016-08-29  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
 
 	* readelf.c (load_specific_debug_section): Check the external
diff --git a/binutils/readelf.c b/binutils/readelf.c
index a99c521c123..c9bce2e5cb3 100644
--- a/binutils/readelf.c
+++ b/binutils/readelf.c
@@ -4238,10 +4238,13 @@ request_dump_bynumber (unsigned int section, dump_type type)
 	error (_("Out of memory allocating dump request table.\n"));
       else
 	{
-	  /* Copy current flag settings.  */
-	  memcpy (new_dump_sects, dump_sects, num_dump_sects * sizeof (* dump_sects));
+	  if (dump_sects)
+	    {
+	      /* Copy current flag settings.  */
+	      memcpy (new_dump_sects, dump_sects, num_dump_sects * sizeof (* dump_sects));
 
-	  free (dump_sects);
+	      free (dump_sects);
+	    }
 
 	  dump_sects = new_dump_sects;
 	  num_dump_sects = section + 1;