This patch removes the DT_NEEDED hack which stores pointers
to soinfo structs in the .dynamic section of the library
being loaded.
Instead, it caches the soinfo struct pointers on the stack
during relocation time. After relocation time, i.e. when
calling constructors and destructors of the shared library
and its dependencies, uncached access is used instead,
doing lookups using the string table entries pointed to by
the DT_NEEDED entries.
By removing this hack, it is no longer needed to undo the
PT_GNURELRO protection, i.e., all non-writable mappings
can remain non-writable during their entire lifespan.
Even though, strictly speaking, the algorithmic complexity
has increased somewhat, the real-world adverse effect
is negligible on the systems I have tested.
Change-Id: I2361502560b96b5878f7f94a8e8a215350d70d64
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@gmail.com>
This should help prevent broken builds next time I'm messing with
assembler/compiler/linker flags...
Change-Id: I30f15a3ce3c3f3c60cad7bc59aaba9f42d792224
The linker only needs to mark the text segment as
writable iff the file has text relocations. Unnecessarily
calling mprotect when it isn't necessary is slow, and some
security enhanced kernels don't like it. Pages which are
simultaneously writable and executable are considered a no-no.
The vast majority of executables / shared libraries on Android
do NOT have text relocations.
Change-Id: Ic38ce30a99b7e33ecf21efd9c108547a58eafa35
Otherwise gdb will print a spurious warning each time gdb is used:
warning: .dynamic section for "/system/bin/linker" is not at the expected
address (wrong library or version mismatch?)
BUG:6946614
Change-Id: Ib21b8db0615751189c1601140deb43bc089289b6
Remove the hand-collated ones, and switch to a script that pulls the
copyright headers out of every file and collects the unique ones.
Change-Id: Ied3b98b3f56241df97166c410ff81de4e0157c9d
Also make the errors more readable, since none of us seemed to know
what they actually meant. The new style is still as verbose as the
old, but that's probably necessary in the absence of chained exceptions
in C. Here's what you'd see if you try to boot after removing
libsurfaceflinger.so:
32267 32267 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Cannot load library: (linker.c:1629, pid 32259) soinfo_link_image: could not load library "libsystem_server.so" needed by "libandroid_servers.so"; caused by (linker.c:1629, pid 32259) soinfo_link_image: could not load library "libsurfaceflinger.so" needed by "libsystem_server.so"; caused by (linker.c:709, pid 32259) load_library: library "libsurfaceflinger.so" not found
This patch also fixes almost all of the compiler warnings.
Change-Id: I64bb59aed6d4e039c15ea45be2367f319ef879f8
Given that _elf_lookup (and thus, _do_lookup) cannot possibly return an
undefined symbol (due to the check for SHN_UNDEF in _elf_lookup), there's
no need for spurious checks for SHN_UNDEF on its return value.
Conflicts:
linker/linker.c
Change-Id: Ic73cf439924b45f72d4d9ba3f64a888c96cbbd9b
GDB needs the runtime linker's base address in order to
locate the latter's ".text" and ".plt" sections, for the
purpose of detecting solib trampolines. It also can
potentially use this to calculate the relocated address
of rtld_db_dlactivity.
Bug: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=34856
Change-Id: I63d3e7ae4e20a684ceb25967f2241e7d58dd685d
Signed-off-by: Ryan V. Bissell <ryan@bissell.org>
Since linker is built with -fvisibility=hidden rtld_db_dlactivity()
if hidden from gdb. Unhide it otherwise gdb may not know linker
activity and rescan solib
Change-Id: Ia8cd8d9738c6ea5696ba2ef0ebf2cf783f9ca70a
Use the functions in linker_phdr.c to load the PT_LOAD segments
in memory, and toggle their mapping's writable protection bit
as needed. In particular:
- when loading a library, load the segments then unprotected
them to allow relocations to work.
- when relocating the linker of the executable, unprotect
the segments loaded by the kernel to make relocations work
too.
- after all relocations are done, re-protect the segments,
and apply GNU RELRO protection if needed.
- just before calling the destructors, undo the GNU RELRO
protection.
Change-Id: I50e709f03958204b8d6140c0f51ebe24fe089a1b
This moves the code that determines where the .dynamic and .ARM.exidx
sections are to a single place in soinfo_link_image().
Change-Id: I98adcb440577bed86442349f03f3c629c945efec
This patch changes the definition of the 'load_offset' field
in struct soinfo. The field is renamed because it is not the
basic load bias to add to every p_vaddr value read from the ELF
file to get the corresponding memory address.
This also slightly simplifies the relocation code.
+ Fix for proper load_bias computation for relocatable executables.
Change-Id: I72502c75a70751cba324deee7d313ae61f96609e
This patch changes the load_library() function in the
dynamic linker to avoid reserving a huge read-only
address-space range just to read the ELF header and
program header (which are typically very small and easily
fit in the first page).
Instead, we use the functions in linker_phdr.c to only
load the data that we need in a temporary mmap-allocated
page of memory, which we release when the function exits.
This avoids issues when loading very large libraries, or
simply debug versions that only need to load a tiny percentage
of their overall file content in RAM.
Change-Id: Id3a189fad2119a870a1b3d43dd81380c54ea6044
This patch introduces two new source files containing a set of functions
to manage the program header table in an ELF binary, including the ability
to load PT_LOAD segments, and apply PT_GNU_RELRO protection.
Note: the files are not used currently, this will appear in a series
of future patches that will gradually modify linker.c to use
the phdr_table_xxx functions properly.
Change-Id: Ia3d4c1ff5fc3e265d8258b64b492f4e643f51bdc
With -fstack-protector, x86 -m32 needs __stack_chk_fail_local
defined in crtbegin_*.o.
Include __stack_chk_fail_local.S in begin.S otherwise linker
(which is built w/o crt*) may not link.
Change-Id: Id242fcf3eff157264afe3b04f27288ab7991220a
This patch adds a trivial implementation of snprintf() that calls
our internal vsnprintf().
Inspection of the generated machine code showed that the linker
contained a full implementation of stdio's vfprintf. It was pulled
in because the pthread implementation uses snprintf() somewhere.
ProTip: It's possible to see why specific objects files are included
in a final binary by adding the following to your Android.mk, then
looking at the content of /tmp/MAP.TXT:
LOCAL_LDFLAGS += -Wl,-Map=/tmp/MAP.TXT
Change-Id: I325e71b0cad1d01116a2e00c09e30a80cb716aa3
This patch adds to make the linker a little bit easier to understand
by making all functions that acts on a sofino object with a soinfo_
prefix.
This is to more easily distinguish functions that operate on global
state, and those that operate on individual libraries.
This should be purely stylistic, i.e. no feature/behaviour change.
Change-Id: Ie510d13d743aa4317644caefa9910b8af7e84f44
Before changing mmap() permission to PROT_NONE in alloc_mem_region(),
such libraries once worked with a bug that uses mmap'ed region outside of
memory region allocated by alloc_mem_region(). This possibly incurs
SIGSEGV because it can overwrite memory region of previously loaded
library, but it sometimes worked, depending on loading order.
After PROT_NONE, this caused SIGSEGV earlier during calculation of
si->phdr in load_library(), but this was fixed by:
75917c84d1 Use mmap to read an ...
Now the behaviour is the same as before applying PROT_NONE in
alloc_mem_region().
This CL fixed the original issue, supporting shared libraries that have
non-zero p_vaddr in first (= with lowest p_vaddr) PT_LOAD segment.
Bug: 6561258
Change-Id: Ib6176dd3e44c4d99a340eb1cbd16fb037586b0bc
Also, fixes SIGSEV during calculation of si->phdr in load_library(),
which is caused by accessing PHDR area, which is not guaranteed to be
loaded.
Note that this usually does not happen because program header area is
covered by immediately following PT_LOAD entry. But it does not hold
always.
Bug: 6561258
Change-Id: Ie376253c773b5420279ca89044e81b1aad5a5736
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: Ia80273d7a00ff648b4da545f4b69debee6343968
Use LOCAL_NO_CRT to prevent linking against crtbegin.o, rather than
messing with build rules. This also prevents linking against crtend.o,
which isn't needed for the linker.
Change-Id: I0c5b9999be7e8676560fe145c1c033ffce8db4d1
The computation of si->base assumed that the first entry in the
program header table is a PT_PHDR. This results in the dynamic
linker crashing with a SIGSEGV/MAPERR when trying to load some
of the NDK unit test programs, which happen to have an EXIDX
header first, followed byu a PHDR one.
This patch fixes the computation by parsing the program header
table, looking explicitely for the PHDR entry. This fixes the
load of the NDK unit test programs, and doesn't affect system
libraries.
Change-Id: Id18ea6037dbe950b5abbbce816c2960321f0b81d
Modify the dynamic linker so that executables can be loaded
at locations other than 0x00000000.
Modify crtbegin* so that non-PIC compilant "thumb interwork
veneers" are not created by the linker.
Bug: 5323301
Change-Id: Iece0272e2b708c79034f302c20160e1fe9029588
The ARM static linker wasn't properly handling __exidx_start
and __exidx_end symbols. Now that the static linker has been fixed,
we don't need the dynamic linker to work around this problem.
Change-Id: I041b94903609fafab33663a7d441a5e70b7ffcdd
