[lld] [LLD][COFF] Fix out-of-bounds write when filling gaps with INT3 in code sections (PR #180411)

Petr Beneš via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Sun Feb 8 10:16:09 PST 2026


https://github.com/wbenny updated https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/180411

>From ca953375a0ffb5236855e6f4886e5bad8c5cdc4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Petr=20Bene=C5=A1?= <w.benny at outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2026 15:46:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [LLD][COFF] Fix out-of-bounds write when filling gaps with
 INT3 in code sections

---
 lld/COFF/Writer.cpp                          |  9 ++-
 lld/test/COFF/merge-bss-text-filealign1.test | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lld/test/COFF/merge-bss-text-filealign1.test

diff --git a/lld/COFF/Writer.cpp b/lld/COFF/Writer.cpp
index 559bd387fa9cb..a5e30e26b9e5b 100644
--- a/lld/COFF/Writer.cpp
+++ b/lld/COFF/Writer.cpp
@@ -2619,12 +2619,17 @@ void Writer::writeSections() {
     if ((sec->header.Characteristics & IMAGE_SCN_CNT_CODE) &&
         (ctx.config.machine == AMD64 || ctx.config.machine == I386)) {
       uint32_t prevEnd = 0;
+      uint32_t rawSize = sec->getRawSize();
       for (Chunk *c : sec->chunks) {
         uint32_t off = c->getRVA() - sec->getRVA();
+        // Chunks without data (e.g., .bss) have virtual addresses beyond
+        // rawSize; stop filling when we reach the end of raw data.
+        if (off >= rawSize)
+          break;
         memset(secBuf + prevEnd, 0xCC, off - prevEnd);
-        prevEnd = off + c->getSize();
+        prevEnd = std::min(off + static_cast<uint32_t>(c->getSize()), rawSize);
       }
-      memset(secBuf + prevEnd, 0xCC, sec->getRawSize() - prevEnd);
+      memset(secBuf + prevEnd, 0xCC, rawSize - prevEnd);
     }
 
     parallelForEach(sec->chunks, [&](Chunk *c) {
diff --git a/lld/test/COFF/merge-bss-text-filealign1.test b/lld/test/COFF/merge-bss-text-filealign1.test
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..75915b11a94bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lld/test/COFF/merge-bss-text-filealign1.test
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+# REQUIRES: x86
+# Test that merging .bss into .text with /FILEALIGN:1 doesn't crash.
+#
+# RUN: yaml2obj %s -o %t.obj
+# RUN: lld-link /out:%t.exe /entry:main /subsystem:console \
+# RUN:   /merge:.bss=.text /filealign:1 %t.obj
+# RUN: llvm-readobj --sections %t.exe | FileCheck %s
+
+# CHECK:      Name: .text
+# CHECK-NEXT: VirtualSize: 0x
+# CHECK:      RawDataSize:
+# CHECK-NOT:  Name: .bss
+
+--- !COFF
+header:
+  Machine:         IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_AMD64
+  Characteristics: [  ]
+sections:
+  - Name:            .text
+    Characteristics: [ IMAGE_SCN_CNT_CODE, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_EXECUTE, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ ]
+    Alignment:       4
+    SectionData:     'C3'
+    SizeOfRawData:   1
+  - Name:            .bss
+    Characteristics: [ IMAGE_SCN_CNT_UNINITIALIZED_DATA, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_WRITE ]
+    Alignment:       4
+    SectionData:     ''
+    SizeOfRawData:   256
+symbols:
+  - Name:            .text
+    Value:           0
+    SectionNumber:   1
+    SimpleType:      IMAGE_SYM_TYPE_NULL
+    ComplexType:     IMAGE_SYM_DTYPE_NULL
+    StorageClass:    IMAGE_SYM_CLASS_STATIC
+    SectionDefinition:
+      Length:          1
+      NumberOfRelocations: 0
+      NumberOfLinenumbers: 0
+      CheckSum:        0
+      Number:          1
+  - Name:            .bss
+    Value:           0
+    SectionNumber:   2
+    SimpleType:      IMAGE_SYM_TYPE_NULL
+    ComplexType:     IMAGE_SYM_DTYPE_NULL
+    StorageClass:    IMAGE_SYM_CLASS_STATIC
+    SectionDefinition:
+      Length:          256
+      NumberOfRelocations: 0
+      NumberOfLinenumbers: 0
+      CheckSum:        0
+      Number:          2
+  - Name:            main
+    Value:           0
+    SectionNumber:   1
+    SimpleType:      IMAGE_SYM_TYPE_NULL
+    ComplexType:     IMAGE_SYM_DTYPE_NULL
+    StorageClass:    IMAGE_SYM_CLASS_EXTERNAL
+...



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