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
In 48527c3f74, we modified the soinfo
structure to remove an unnecessary variable. However, third party
programs seem to be relying on the structure not changing.
Add a dummy variable back into place to preserve structure.
Bug: 5064106
Change-Id: I3014dda1a46e624644b09e156c3e9381ba3729bd
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
The previous implementation of this flag was broken--it behaved identically
to RTLD_DEFAULT. This adds a proper implementation, which examines the address
of the calling function, and uses it to determine which library to use to begin
the symbol search process.
Change-Id: I2ad2b46363f68932af63a3828a22f9c7987eea67
dladdr() is a GNU extension function, which allows the caller to retrieve
symbol information for a specified memory address. It is useful for things
like generating backtrace information at runtime.
Change-Id: I3a1def1a6c9c666d93e1e97b7d260dfa5b9b79a9
Merge commit 'fe62de1ad036a1417df44b7b1a7c65cc79dc7091' into eclair-plus-aosp
* commit 'fe62de1ad036a1417df44b7b1a7c65cc79dc7091':
Add support for R_ARM_REL32 to the dynamic linker.
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>
