Reduce the statically linked startup code [BZ #23323]

It turns out the startup code in csu/elf-init.c has a perfect pair of
ROP gadgets (see Marco-Gisbert and Ripoll-Ripoll, "return-to-csu: A
New Method to Bypass 64-bit Linux ASLR").  These functions are not
needed in dynamically-linked binaries because DT_INIT/DT_INIT_ARRAY
are already processed by the dynamic linker.  However, the dynamic
linker skipped the main program for some reason.  For maximum
backwards compatibility, this is not changed, and instead, the main
map is consulted from __libc_start_main if the init function argument
is a NULL pointer.

For statically linked binaries, the old approach based on linker
symbols is still used because there is nothing else available.

A new symbol version __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 is introduced because
new binaries running on an old libc would not run their ELF
constructors, leading to difficult-to-debug issues.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h b/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
index 9720a4e446..ea3f7a69d0 100644
--- a/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
+++ b/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ typedef struct link_map *lookup_t;
    : (__glibc_unlikely ((ref)->st_shndx == SHN_ABS) ? 0			\
       : LOOKUP_VALUE_ADDRESS (map, map_set)) + (ref)->st_value)
 
+/* Type of a constructor function, in DT_INIT, DT_INIT_ARRAY,
+   DT_PREINIT_ARRAY.  */
+typedef void (*dl_init_t) (int, char **, char **);
+
 /* On some architectures a pointer to a function is not just a pointer
    to the actual code of the function but rather an architecture
    specific descriptor. */
@@ -101,7 +105,7 @@ typedef struct link_map *lookup_t;
  (void *) SYMBOL_ADDRESS (map, ref, false)
 # define DL_LOOKUP_ADDRESS(addr) ((ElfW(Addr)) (addr))
 # define DL_CALL_DT_INIT(map, start, argc, argv, env) \
- ((init_t) (start)) (argc, argv, env)
+ ((dl_init_t) (start)) (argc, argv, env)
 # define DL_CALL_DT_FINI(map, start) ((fini_t) (start)) ()
 #endif