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authorAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2023-01-03 09:56:28 -0300
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2023-02-03 10:58:23 -0300
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elf: Fix GL(dl_phdr) and GL(dl_phnum) for static builds [BZ #29864]
The 73fc4e28b9464f0e refactor did not add the GL(dl_phdr) and
GL(dl_phnum) for static build, relying on the __ehdr_start symbol,
which is always added by the static linker, to get the correct values.

This is problematic in some ways:

  - The segment may see its in-memory size differ from its in-file
    size (or the binary may have holes).  The Linux has fixed is to
    provide concise values for both AT_PHDR and AT_PHNUM (commit
    0da1d5002745c - "fs/binfmt_elf: Fix AT_PHDR for unusual ELF files")

  - Some archs (alpha for instance) the hidden weak reference is not
    correctly pulled by the static linker and  __ehdr_start address
    end up being 0, which makes GL(dl_phdr) and GL(dl_phnum) have both
    invalid values (and triggering a segfault later on libc.so while
    accessing TLS variables).

The safer fix is to just restore the previous behavior to setup
GL(dl_phdr) and GL(dl_phnum) for static based on kernel auxv.  The
__ehdr_start fallback can also be simplified by not assuming weak
linkage (as for PIE).

The libc-static.c auxv init logic is moved to dl-support.c, since
the later is build without SHARED and then GLRO macro is defined
to access the variables directly.

The _dl_phdr is also assumed to be always non NULL, since an invalid
NULL values does not trigger TLS initialization (which is used in
various libc systems).

Checked on aarch64-linux-gnu, x86_64-linux-gnu, and i686-linux-gnu.

Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7e31d166510ac4adbf53d5e8144c709a37dd8c7a)
Diffstat (limited to 'csu/libc-start.c')
-rw-r--r--csu/libc-start.c21
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/csu/libc-start.c b/csu/libc-start.c
index 543560f36c..bfeee6d851 100644
--- a/csu/libc-start.c
+++ b/csu/libc-start.c
@@ -262,28 +262,7 @@ LIBC_START_MAIN (int (*main) (int, char **, char ** MAIN_AUXVEC_DECL),
   }
 #  endif
   _dl_aux_init (auxvec);
-  if (GL(dl_phdr) == NULL)
 # endif
-    {
-      /* Starting from binutils-2.23, the linker will define the
-         magic symbol __ehdr_start to point to our own ELF header
-         if it is visible in a segment that also includes the phdrs.
-         So we can set up _dl_phdr and _dl_phnum even without any
-         information from auxv.  */
-
-      extern const ElfW(Ehdr) __ehdr_start
-# if BUILD_PIE_DEFAULT
-	__attribute__ ((visibility ("hidden")));
-# else
-	__attribute__ ((weak, visibility ("hidden")));
-      if (&__ehdr_start != NULL)
-# endif
-        {
-          assert (__ehdr_start.e_phentsize == sizeof *GL(dl_phdr));
-          GL(dl_phdr) = (const void *) &__ehdr_start + __ehdr_start.e_phoff;
-          GL(dl_phnum) = __ehdr_start.e_phnum;
-        }
-    }
 
   __tunables_init (__environ);