get_section() returned an undefined section size on failure,
which could cause load_symbols() to crash if kernel symtables
were missing from the module.

get_section() will now return secsize == 0 if it fails.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Robinson <[email protected]>
---
 elfops_core.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/elfops_core.c b/elfops_core.c
index 1e8083b..051e7f7 100644
--- a/elfops_core.c
+++ b/elfops_core.c
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ static void *PERBIT(get_section)(struct elf_file *module,
        const char *secnames;
        unsigned int i;
 
+       *secsize = 0;
+
        if (len <= 0 || len < sizeof(*hdr))
                return NULL;
 
@@ -65,7 +67,6 @@ static void *PERBIT(get_section)(struct elf_file *module,
                        return data + secoffset;
                }
        }
-       *secsize = 0;
        return NULL;
 }
 
-- 
1.6.0.4


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