hurd: Rework sbrk

Making the brk start exactly at the end of the main application binary was
requiring to get it through the _end symbol, which does not work any more
with recent toolchains, and actually produces in libc.so a confusing
external _end symbol that produces odd results, see
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23499

Trying to do so is quite outdated anyway with the tendency for address
randomization.

Using _end was also allowing to include the main binary data within
the RLIMIT_DATA, but this also seems outdated with dynamic library
loading, and nowadays' memory consumption via malloc and mmap rather than
statically-allocated data.

This adds a BRK_START macro in <vm_param.h> that just tells where we
want to start the brk, and thus removes the _end symbol.

* sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386/vm_param.h: New file.
* sysdeps/mach/hurd/brk.c: Use BRK_START as brk start instead of _end.
Also ignore __data_start.
* hurd/Versions: Remove _end symbol.
* sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386/libc.abilist: Remove _end symbol.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/brk.c b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/brk.c
index 4fac03fcc3..a6d4880028 100644
--- a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/brk.c
+++ b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/brk.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <hurd.h>
 #include <hurd/resource.h>
 #include <cthreads.h>		/* For `struct mutex'.  */
+#include <vm_param.h>
 
 
 /* Initial maximum size of the data segment (this is arbitrary).  */
@@ -39,9 +40,7 @@ weak_alias (_hurd_brk, ___brk_addr)
 
 struct mutex _hurd_brk_lock;
 
-extern int __data_start, _end;
-weak_extern (__data_start)
-static vm_address_t static_data_start;
+static vm_address_t brk_start;
 
 
 /* Set the end of the process's data space to INADDR.
@@ -91,7 +90,7 @@ _hurd_set_brk (vm_address_t addr)
   rlimit = _hurd_rlimits[RLIMIT_DATA].rlim_cur;
   __mutex_unlock (&_hurd_rlimit_lock);
 
-  if (addr - static_data_start > rlimit)
+  if (addr - brk_start > rlimit)
     {
       /* Need to increase the resource limit.  */
       errno = ENOMEM;
@@ -138,17 +137,18 @@ init_brk (void)
 
   __mutex_init (&_hurd_brk_lock);
 
-  static_data_start = (vm_address_t) (&__data_start ?: &_end);
+  brk_start = (vm_address_t) BRK_START;
 
   /* If _hurd_brk is already set, don't change it.  The assumption is that
      it was set in a previous run before something like Emacs's unexec was
      called and dumped all the data up to the break at that point.  */
-  if (_hurd_brk == 0)
-    _hurd_brk = (vm_address_t) &_end;
+  if (_hurd_brk == 0) {
+    _hurd_brk = (vm_address_t) BRK_START;
+  }
 
   pagend = round_page (_hurd_brk);
 
-  _hurd_data_end = round_page (static_data_start + DATA_SIZE);
+  _hurd_data_end = round_page (brk_start + DATA_SIZE);
 
   if (pagend < _hurd_data_end)
     {