elf: Avoid RELATIVE relocs in __tunables_init

With static pie linking pointers in the tunables list need
RELATIVE relocs since the absolute address is not known at link
time. We want to avoid relocations so the static pie self
relocation can be done after tunables are initialized.

This is a simple fix that embeds the tunable strings into the
tunable list instead of using pointers.  It is possible to have
a more compact representation of tunables with some additional
complexity in the generator and tunable parser logic.  Such
optimization will be useful if the list of tunables grows.

There is still an issue that tunables_strdup allocates and the
failure handling code path is sufficiently complex that it can
easily have RELATIVE relocations.  It is possible to avoid the
early allocation and only change environment variables in a
setuid exe after relocations are processed.  But that is a
bigger change and early failure is fatal anyway so it is not
as critical to fix right away. This is bug 27181.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/elf/dl-tunables.c b/elf/dl-tunables.c
index 33be00e447..e44476f204 100644
--- a/elf/dl-tunables.c
+++ b/elf/dl-tunables.c
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ __tunables_init (char **envp)
 
 	  /* Skip over tunables that have either been set already or should be
 	     skipped.  */
-	  if (cur->initialized || cur->env_alias == NULL)
+	  if (cur->initialized || cur->env_alias[0] == '\0')
 	    continue;
 
 	  const char *name = cur->env_alias;