From ea32e40d12ed7fcf9165bdf3e04b59a79ac0a659 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Isaac Freund <mail@isaacfreund.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 19:03:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] link.Elf: check files in archives for ELF magic

Apparently raw LLVM IR Bitcode files ("Bitstreams") may appear in
archives with LTO enabled. I observed this in the wild on
Chimera Linux.

I'm not yet sure if it's in scope for Zig to support these special
archives, but we should at least give a correct error message.
---
 src/link/Elf/Object.zig | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/link/Elf/Object.zig b/src/link/Elf/Object.zig
index 4d5b5378c4a8..469f0ac980d7 100644
--- a/src/link/Elf/Object.zig
+++ b/src/link/Elf/Object.zig
@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ pub fn parseCommon(
     const header_buffer = try Elf.preadAllAlloc(gpa, handle, offset, @sizeOf(elf.Elf64_Ehdr));
     defer gpa.free(header_buffer);
     self.header = @as(*align(1) const elf.Elf64_Ehdr, @ptrCast(header_buffer)).*;
+    if (!mem.eql(u8, self.header.?.e_ident[0..4], elf.MAGIC)) {
+        return diags.failParse(path, "not an ELF file", .{});
+    }
 
     const em = target.toElfMachine();
     if (em != self.header.?.e_machine) {