[lld] r352068 - Partial support of SHT_GROUP without flag

[Serge Guelton via llvm-commits]

Author: serge_sans_paille
Date: Thu Jan 24 09:56:08 2019
New Revision: 352068

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=352068&view=rev
Log:
Partial support of SHT_GROUP without flag

This does *not* implement full SHT_GROUP semantic, yet it is a simple step forward:
Sections within a group are still considered valid, but they do not behave as
specified by the standard in case of garbage collection.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56437

Added:
    lld/trunk/test/ELF/sht-group-empty.test
Modified:
    lld/trunk/ELF/InputFiles.cpp

Modified: lld/trunk/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/lld/trunk/ELF/InputFiles.cpp?rev=352068&r1=352067&r2=352068&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- lld/trunk/ELF/InputFiles.cpp (original)
+++ lld/trunk/ELF/InputFiles.cpp Thu Jan 24 09:56:08 2019
@@ -319,17 +319,6 @@ StringRef ObjFile<ELFT>::getShtGroupSign
   return Signature;
 }
 
-template <class ELFT>
-ArrayRef<typename ObjFile<ELFT>::Elf_Word>
-ObjFile<ELFT>::getShtGroupEntries(const Elf_Shdr &Sec) {
-  const ELFFile<ELFT> &Obj = this->getObj();
-  ArrayRef<Elf_Word> Entries =
-      CHECK(Obj.template getSectionContentsAsArray<Elf_Word>(&Sec), this);
-  if (Entries.empty() || Entries[0] != GRP_COMDAT)
-    fatal(toString(this) + ": unsupported SHT_GROUP format");
-  return Entries.slice(1);
-}
-
 template <class ELFT> bool ObjFile<ELFT>::shouldMerge(const Elf_Shdr &Sec) {
   // On a regular link we don't merge sections if -O0 (default is -O1). This
   // sometimes makes the linker significantly faster, although the output will
@@ -439,26 +428,34 @@ void ObjFile<ELFT>::initializeSections(
     case SHT_GROUP: {
       // De-duplicate section groups by their signatures.
       StringRef Signature = getShtGroupSignature(ObjSections, Sec);
-      bool IsNew = ComdatGroups.insert(CachedHashStringRef(Signature)).second;
       this->Sections[I] = &InputSection::Discarded;
 
-      // We only support GRP_COMDAT type of group. Get the all entries of the
-      // section here to let getShtGroupEntries to check the type early for us.
-      ArrayRef<Elf_Word> Entries = getShtGroupEntries(Sec);
-
-      // If it is a new section group, we want to keep group members.
-      // Group leader sections, which contain indices of group members, are
-      // discarded because they are useless beyond this point. The only
-      // exception is the -r option because in order to produce re-linkable
-      // object files, we want to pass through basically everything.
+
+      ArrayRef<Elf_Word> Entries =
+          CHECK(Obj.template getSectionContentsAsArray<Elf_Word>(&Sec), this);
+      if (Entries.empty())
+        fatal(toString(this) + ": empty SHT_GROUP");
+
+      // The first word of a SHT_GROUP section contains flags. Currently,
+      // the standard defines only "GRP_COMDAT" flag for the COMDAT group.
+      // An group with the empty flag doesn't define anything; such sections
+      // are just skipped.
+      if (Entries[0] == 0)
+        continue;
+
+      if (Entries[0] != GRP_COMDAT)
+        fatal(toString(this) + ": unsupported SHT_GROUP format");
+
+      bool IsNew = ComdatGroups.insert(CachedHashStringRef(Signature)).second;
       if (IsNew) {
         if (Config->Relocatable)
           this->Sections[I] = createInputSection(Sec);
-        continue;
+	continue;
       }
 
+
       // Otherwise, discard group members.
-      for (uint32_t SecIndex : Entries) {
+      for (uint32_t SecIndex : Entries.slice(1)) {
         if (SecIndex >= Size)
           fatal(toString(this) +
                 ": invalid section index in group: " + Twine(SecIndex));

Added: lld/trunk/test/ELF/sht-group-empty.test
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/lld/trunk/test/ELF/sht-group-empty.test?rev=352068&view=auto
==============================================================================
--- lld/trunk/test/ELF/sht-group-empty.test (added)
+++ lld/trunk/test/ELF/sht-group-empty.test Thu Jan 24 09:56:08 2019
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# RUN: yaml2obj %s -o %t.o
+# RUN: ld.lld %t.o %t.o -o %t -r
+# RUN: llvm-readobj -s %t | FileCheck %s
+
+# CHECK:     Name: .text.foo
+# CHECK:     Name: .rela.text.foo
+
+--- !ELF
+FileHeader:
+  Class:           ELFCLASS64
+  Data:            ELFDATA2LSB
+  Type:            ET_REL
+  Machine:         EM_X86_64
+Sections:
+  - Name:            .group
+    Type:            SHT_GROUP
+    Link:            .symtab
+    Info:            foo
+    Members:
+      - SectionOrType:    GRP_COMDAT
+      - SectionOrType:    .text.foo
+      - SectionOrType:    .text.bar
+      - SectionOrType:    .note
+  - Name:            .note
+    Type:            SHT_NOTE
+    Flags:           [ SHF_GROUP ]
+  - Name:            .text.foo
+    Type:            SHT_PROGBITS
+    Flags:           [ SHF_ALLOC, SHF_EXECINSTR, SHF_GROUP ]
+  - Name:            .text.bar
+    Type:            SHT_PROGBITS
+    Flags:           [ SHF_ALLOC, SHF_EXECINSTR, SHF_GROUP ]
+  - Name:            .rela.text.foo
+    Type:            SHT_RELA
+    Flags:           [ SHF_INFO_LINK, SHF_GROUP ]
+    Link:            .symtab
+    Info:            .text.foo
+    Relocations:
+      - Offset:          0x0000000000000000
+        Symbol:          foo
+        Type:            R_X86_64_64
+  - Name:            .rela.text.bar
+    Type:            SHT_RELA
+    Flags:           [ SHF_INFO_LINK, SHF_GROUP ]
+    Link:            .symtab
+    Info:            .text.bar
+    Relocations:
+      - Offset:          0x0000000000000000
+        Symbol:          bar
+        Type:            R_X86_64_64
+Symbols:
+  Global:
+    - Name:            foo
+    - Name:            bar
+