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authorBen Woodard <woodard@redhat.com>2022-01-24 10:46:18 -0300
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2022-02-01 14:49:46 -0300
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elf: Fix runtime linker auditing on aarch64 (BZ #26643)
The rtld audit support show two problems on aarch64:

  1. _dl_runtime_resolve does not preserve x8, the indirect result
      location register, which might generate wrong result calls
      depending of the function signature.

  2. The NEON Q registers pushed onto the stack by _dl_runtime_resolve
     were twice the size of D registers extracted from the stack frame by
     _dl_runtime_profile.

While 2. might result in wrong information passed on the PLT tracing,
1. generates wrong runtime behaviour.

The aarch64 rtld audit support is changed to:

  * Both La_aarch64_regs and La_aarch64_retval are expanded to include
    both x8 and the full sized NEON V registers, as defined by the
    ABI.

  * dl_runtime_profile needed to extract registers saved by
    _dl_runtime_resolve and put them into the new correctly sized
    La_aarch64_regs structure.

  * The LAV_CURRENT check is change to only accept new audit modules
    to avoid the undefined behavior of not save/restore x8.

  * Different than other architectures, audit modules older than
    LAV_CURRENT are rejected (both La_aarch64_regs and La_aarch64_retval
    changed their layout and there are no requirements to support multiple
    audit interface with the inherent aarch64 issues).

  * A new field is also reserved on both La_aarch64_regs and
    La_aarch64_retval to support variant pcs symbols.

Similar to x86, a new La_aarch64_vector type to represent the NEON
register is added on the La_aarch64_regs (so each type can be accessed
directly).

Since LAV_CURRENT was already bumped to support bind-now, there is
no need to increase it again.

Checked on aarch64-linux-gnu.

Co-authored-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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@@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
   proper bind-now support.  The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
   flags that PLT trace is not possible.
 
+* The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
+  result location register (x8) and NEON Q register.  Old audit modules are
+  rejected by the loader.
+
 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
 
   [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]