The PowerPC64 linker edits medium model toc-indirect code to toc-pointer
relative:
addis r9,r2,tc_entry_for_var@toc@ha
ld r9,tc_entry_for_var@toc@l(r9)
becomes
addis r9,r2,(var-.TOC.)@ha
addi r9,r9,(var-.TOC.)@l
when "var" is known to be local to the binary. This isn't done for
small-model toc-indirect code, because "var" is almost guaranteed to
be too far away from .TOC. for a 16-bit signed offset. And, because
the analysis of which .toc entry can be removed becomes much more
complicated in objects that mix code models, they aren't removed if
any small-model toc sequence appears in an object file.
Unfortunately, glibc's build of ld.so smashes the needed objects
together in a ld -r linking stage. This means the GOT/TOC is left
with a whole lot of relative relocations which is untidy, but in
itself is not a serious problem. However, static-pie on powerpc64
bombs due to a segfault caused by one of the small-model accesses
before _dl_relocate_static_pie. (The very first one in rcrt1.o
passing start_addresses in r8 to __libc_start_main.)
So this patch makes all the toc/got accesses in assembly medium code
model, and a couple of functions hidden. By itself this is not
enough to give us working static-pie, but it is useful in isolation to
enable better linker optimisation.
There's a serious problem in libgcc too. libgcc ifuncs access the
AT_HWCAP words stored in the tcb with an offset from the thread
pointer (r13), but r13 isn't set at the time _dl_relocate_static_pie.
A followup patch will fix that.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 7061 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from math/tgmath.h,
support/tst-support-open-dev-null-range.c, and
sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-vec.S, to work around the following
obscure pre-commit check failure diagnostics from Savannah. I don't
know why I run into these diagnostics whereas others evidently do not.
remote: *** 912-#endif
remote: *** 913:
remote: *** 914-
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
...
remote: *** error: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/statx_cp.c: trailing lines
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.
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 6694 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from benchtests/bench-pthread-locks.c
and iconvdata/tst-iconv-big5-hkscs-to-2ucs4.c, to work around this
diagnostic from Savannah:
remote: *** pre-commit check failed ...
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
