Previously, the linker always loaded itself into the same
location in memory, which inhibited the effectiveness of Android's
ASLR implementation. Modify the linker code so it can be relocatable
and link itself at runtime.
Change-Id: I90d064743abdd29450ac0482ed28752b2196286c
Currently, the Android linker is placing shared libraries into
a well-known spot in memory. This is interfering with the kernel's
ASLR support.
This change stops forcing non-prelinked libraries into a particular
address space.
Also, get rid of FLAG_PRELINKED. As best I can tell, this flag
is never used.
Change-Id: I527af12fb54f821c2b5ca7693dbf63d022f8f4ae
This removes several unsecure environment variables from the
environment block when the program being loaded is setuid. The
list of env. variables is the same than what GLibc uses at this
point.
Change-Id: I456d3ea0880fe0d4de0d3c5dd51871dd36e87fd6
This provides a mini-printf implementation that reduces the
size of the dynamic linker by 25 KB, by preventing the drag of
formatting-related routines from the C library.
Also allow traces to be sent to the log, instead of stdout.
NOTE: You now need to modify Android.mk to enable/disable debug
output.
Replicate ARM libc build's HAVE_ARM_TLS_REGISTER preprocessor definition
logic, to ensure that the runtime linker uses the correct codepath for
accessing the TLS address
Changed it so that when the linker generates error messages, they are
scribbled away into a buffer that dlfcn and friends can read from.
Since the error messages are generetad with snprintf, and snprintf
MAY call malloc during some code paths, we now link against a version
of libc that does not contain malloc/free/realloc/calloc. We then define
malloc and friends in the dynamic loader, and make them abort() if they
are ever called.
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
