From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: Kaylee Blake <klkblake@gmail.com>, Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: [PATCH] ELF: Don't require section header on ELF objects
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 21:14:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOp+MWVOQwom5o9wR6QPCCjFP3XEoTrhqc9GwxLkGpqRBg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOpp5mZdQh+uK5s4fReyxXpazQK0CJLbYPRgAbWzuQw7vw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 7:35 PM H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 7:23 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 12:29:48PM +1030, Kaylee Blake wrote:
> > > On 9/3/20 12:06 pm, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 5:05 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> Well we certainly don't do such sorting. For example, from a freshly
> > > >> build ld/ld-new --enable-targets=all
> > > >>
> > > >> 148: 0000000000f08380 4 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 25 opterr@GLIBC_2.2.5 (3)
> > > >> 149: 0000000000402f80 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT UND calloc@GLIBC_2.2.5 (3)
> > > >> 150: 0000000000881536 35 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 13 _obstack_allocated_p
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > I will make 2 changes:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Update -z nosectionheader to guarantee that the last entry in
> > > > dynamic symbol table
> > > > is defined.
> > > > 2. Update --remove-section-header to issue an error if the last entry
> > > > in dynamic symbol
> > > > table is undefined.
> > > >
> > >
> > > With some testing, it seems like ld will emit an ordered symbol table
> > > iff it's using the DT_GNU_HASH hash table style
> >
> > It doesn't. The snippet of .dynsym I posted was from a binary with
> > DT_GNU_HASH. elflink.c:_bfd_elf_link_renumber_dynsyms should convince
> > you that any ordering seen is by chance.
> >
> > >, and my understanding is
> > > that DT_GNU_HASH in fact requires this behaviour.
> >
> > Apparently not. ;-)
> >
> > > So in that case, we
> > > don't need to do an additional check, because we only need the ordering
> > > if we are looking up through DT_GNU_HASH instead of DT_HASH.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Kaylee Blake <klkblake@gmail.com>
> > > C is the worst language, except for all the others.
> >
>
> x86 backend does:
>
> if (!local_undefweak
> && !h->def_regular
> && (h->plt.offset != (bfd_vma) -1
> || eh->plt_got.offset != (bfd_vma) -1))
> {
> /* Mark the symbol as undefined, rather than as defined in
> the .plt section. Leave the value if there were any
> relocations where pointer equality matters (this is a clue
> for the dynamic linker, to make function pointer
> comparisons work between an application and shared
> library), otherwise set it to zero. If a function is only
> called from a binary, there is no need to slow down
> shared libraries because of that. */
> sym->st_shndx = SHN_UNDEF;
> if (!h->pointer_equality_needed)
> sym->st_value = 0;
> }
>
> Entries in DT_GNU_HASH were originally defined. A backend
> may change some entries to undefined. I think my patch is OK.
>
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 pr25617]$ cat y.s
.data
bar:
.dc.a foo
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 pr25617]$ gcc -c y.s
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 pr25617]$ ./ld -shared y.o --hash-style=sysv
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 pr25617]$ readelf -D -s a.out
Symbol table for image:
Num Buc: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
1 0: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT UND foo
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 pr25617]$ ./ld -shared y.o --hash-style=gnu
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 pr25617]$ readelf -D -s a.out
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 pr25617]$
I will update my patch to not to generate such binary without section
header.
--
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-09 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-08 17:59 H.J. Lu
2020-03-08 18:06 ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-08 23:35 ` Alan Modra
2020-03-08 23:46 ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-09 0:02 ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-09 0:02 ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 0:05 ` Alan Modra
2020-03-09 1:36 ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-09 1:59 ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 2:23 ` Alan Modra
2020-03-09 2:35 ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-09 4:14 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2020-03-09 4:59 ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 11:56 ` Alan Modra
2020-03-08 23:24 ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-08 23:29 ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-08 23:38 ` Alan Modra
2020-03-08 23:45 ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-12 2:14 ` Fangrui Song
2020-03-09 8:13 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-09 12:54 ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 13:06 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-09 13:14 ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 13:16 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-09 13:28 ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 13:29 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-09 13:45 ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 13:54 ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-09 14:02 ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 14:52 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-09 15:07 ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 15:29 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-09 13:44 ` Alan Modra
2020-03-09 13:54 ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 22:34 ` Alan Modra
2020-03-10 0:14 ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-09 14:34 ` Michael Matz
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