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authorAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2023-11-06 17:25:50 -0300
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2023-11-21 16:15:42 -0300
commit780c33920281c5d5cc42a1e578bdc9218e675405 (patch)
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elf: Add comments on how LD_AUDIT and LD_PRELOAD handle __libc_enable_secure
To make explicit why __libc_enable_secure is not checked.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'elf')
-rw-r--r--elf/rtld.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/elf/rtld.c b/elf/rtld.c
index 7d4c843e7e..0553c05edb 100644
--- a/elf/rtld.c
+++ b/elf/rtld.c
@@ -2561,6 +2561,10 @@ process_envvars (struct dl_main_state *state)
 	      process_dl_debug (state, &envline[6]);
 	      break;
 	    }
+	  /* For __libc_enable_secure mode, audit pathnames containing slashes
+	     are ignored.  Also, shared audit objects are only loaded only from
+	     the standard search directories and only if they have set-user-ID
+	     mode bit enabled.  */
 	  if (memcmp (envline, "AUDIT", 5) == 0)
 	    audit_list_add_string (&state->audit_list, &envline[6]);
 	  break;
@@ -2573,7 +2577,10 @@ process_envvars (struct dl_main_state *state)
 	      break;
 	    }
 
-	  /* List of objects to be preloaded.  */
+	  /* For __libc_enable_secure mode, preload pathnames containing slashes
+	     are ignored.  Also, shared objects are only preloaded from the
+	     standard search directories and only if they have set-user-ID mode
+	     bit enabled.  */
 	  if (memcmp (envline, "PRELOAD", 7) == 0)
 	    {
 	      state->preloadlist = &envline[8];