A note header has 3 4-bytes fields, followed by note name and note
descriptor. According to gABI, in a note entry, the note name field,
not note name size, is padded for the note descriptor. And the note
descriptor field, not note descriptor size, is padded for the next
note entry. Notes are aligned to 4 bytes in 32-bit objects and 8 bytes
in 64-bit objects.
For all GNU notes, the name is "GNU" which is 4 bytes. They have the
same format in the first 16 bytes in both 32-bit and 64-bit objects.
They differ by note descriptor size and note type. So far, .note.ABI-tag
and .note.gnu.build-id notes are always aligned to 4 bytes. The exsting
codes compute the note size by aligning the note name size and note
descriptor size to 4 bytes. It happens to produce the same value as
the actual note size by luck since the name size is 4 and offset of the
note descriptor is 16. But it will produce the wrong size when note
alignment is 8 bytes in 64-bit objects.
This patch defines ELF_NOTE_DESC_OFFSET and ELF_NOTE_NEXT_OFFSET to
properly compute offsets of note descriptor and next note. It uses
alignment of PT_NOTE segment to support both 4-byte and 8-byte note
alignments in 64-bit objects. To handle PT_NOTE segments with
incorrect alignment, which may lead to an infinite loop, if segment
alignment is less than 4, we treate alignment as 4 bytes since some
note segments have 0 or 1 byte alignment.
[BZ #22370]
* elf/dl-hwcaps.c (ROUND): Removed.
(_dl_important_hwcaps): Replace ROUND with ELF_NOTE_DESC_OFFSET
and ELF_NOTE_NEXT_OFFSET.
* elf/dl-load.c (ROUND): Removed.
(open_verify): Replace ROUND with ELF_NOTE_NEXT_OFFSET.
* elf/readelflib.c (ROUND): Removed.
(process_elf_file): Replace ROUND with ELF_NOTE_NEXT_OFFSET.
* include/elf.h [!_ISOMAC]: Include <libc-pointer-arith.h>.
[!_ISOMAC] (ELF_NOTE_DESC_OFFSET): New.
[!_ISOMAC] (ELF_NOTE_NEXT_OFFSET): Likewise.
Drop _dl_hwcap_mask when building with tunables. This completes the
transition of hwcap_mask reading from _dl_hwcap_mask to tunables.
* elf/dl-hwcaps.h: New file.
* elf/dl-hwcaps.c: Include it.
(_dl_important_hwcaps)[HAVE_TUNABLES]: Read and update
glibc.tune.hwcap_mask.
* elf/dl-cache.c: Include dl-hwcaps.h.
(_dl_load_cache_lookup)[HAVE_TUNABLES]: Read
glibc.tune.hwcap_mask.
* sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/dl-machine.h: Likewise.
* elf/dl-support.c (_dl_hwcap2)[HAVE_TUNABLES]: Drop
_dl_hwcap_mask.
* elf/rtld.c (rtld_global_ro)[HAVE_TUNABLES]: Drop
_dl_hwcap_mask.
(process_envvars)[HAVE_TUNABLES]: Likewise.
* sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h (rtld_global_ro)[HAVE_TUNABLES]:
Likewise.
* sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c (init_cpu_features): Don't
initialize dl_hwcap_mask when tunables are enabled.
In dl-hwcaps.c the comment read that rounding was done
to ElfW(Addr), but it's actually rounded to ElfW(Word).
In ldconfig.c we make each comment a sentence and
mention that the "tls" pseudo-hwcap is just for legacy
installations where TLS was optional.
---
2013-05-22 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
* elf/ldconfig.c (is_hwcap_platform): Make comments full setences.
(main): Mention "tls" pseudo-hwcap is legacy.
* elf/dl-hwcaps.c (_dl_important_hwcaps): Correct rounding comment.
Loading of the vDSO pseudo-hwcap from the type 2 GNU note is
a rather arcane and poorly documented process. Given that I had
a chance to review this code today I thought I would add all
of the things I had to lookup to verify the validity of the
process.
With a single .note.GNU the vDSO can register up to 64 flags,
though in practice you are limited to 64 - _DL_FIRST_EXTRA
bits which on x86 is 12 bits.
The only use of this that I know of is in the Xen support
in Linux where they use the 1st bit to indicate "nosegneg".
I see "We use bit 1 to avoid bugs in some versions of glibc
when bit 0 is used; the choice is otherwise arbitrary.", but
no reference to a glibc bug anywhere. The code as-is should
support bit zero, so we still have that free for future use.
The kernel, glibc, and ld.so.cache must coordinate to ensure
that bit values don't go too high and are used consistently.
---
2013-05-13 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
* elf/dl-hwcaps.c (_dl_important_hwcaps): Comment vDSO hwcap loading.
* elf/ldconfig.c (is_hwcap_platform): Comment each hwcap check.
(main): Comment "tls" pseudo-hwcap.
