glibc/sysdeps/alpha/start.S
Florian Weimer 035c012e32 Reduce the statically linked startup code [BZ #23323]
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.
2021-02-25 12:13:02 +01:00

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/* Startup code for Alpha/ELF.
Copyright (C) 1993-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
Contributed by Richard Henderson <rth@tamu.edu>
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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cover modification of the file, and distribution when not linked
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<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#include <sysdep.h>
.text
.align 3
.globl _start
.ent _start, 0
.type _start,@function
_start:
.frame $15, 0, $15
br gp, 1f
1: ldgp gp, 0(gp)
subq sp, 16, sp
mov 0, $15
.prologue 0
/* Load address of the user's main function. */
lda a0, main
ldl a1, 16(sp) /* get argc */
lda a2, 24(sp) /* get argv */
mov $r31, a3 /* Used to be init. */
mov $r31, a4 /* Used to be fini. */
/* Store address of the shared library termination function. */
mov v0, a5
/* Provide the highest stack address to the user code. */
stq sp, 0(sp)
/* Call the user's main function, and exit with its value.
But let the libc call main. */
jsr ra, __libc_start_main
/* Die very horribly if exit returns. Call_pal hlt is callable from
kernel mode only; this will result in an illegal instruction trap. */
call_pal 0
.end _start
/* For ECOFF backwards compatibility. */
weak_alias (_start, __start)
/* Define a symbol for the first piece of initialized data. */
.data
.globl __data_start
__data_start:
.weak data_start
data_start = __data_start