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-rw-r--r--elf/readlib.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/elf/readlib.c b/elf/readlib.c
index 5c14a42b9d..7fd5b8afbf 100644
--- a/elf/readlib.c
+++ b/elf/readlib.c
@@ -63,6 +63,13 @@ static struct known_names known_libs[] =
};
+/* Check if string corresponds to a GDB Python file. */
+static bool
+is_gdb_python_file (const char *name)
+{
+ size_t len = strlen (name);
+ return len > 7 && strcmp (name + len - 7, "-gdb.py") == 0;
+}
/* Returns 0 if everything is ok, != 0 in case of error. */
int
@@ -157,7 +164,8 @@ process_file (const char *real_file_name, const char *file_name,
beginning of the file. */
size_t len = MIN (statbuf.st_size, 512);
if (memmem (file_contents, len, "GROUP", 5) == NULL
- && memmem (file_contents, len, "GNU ld script", 13) == NULL)
+ && memmem (file_contents, len, "GNU ld script", 13) == NULL
+ && !is_gdb_python_file (file_name))
error (0, 0, _("%s is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.\n"),
file_name);
ret = 1;