Dear Community,

> * Szabolcs Nagy:
> 
> > i don't know much about pelinking, but i'd expect that ld.so
> > has to be prelinked for it to work:
> >
> > if the kernel can load ld.so anywhere it will conflict with
> > other libraries that prelinking allocated to a fixed location.  
> 
> I think ld.so can back out prelinking if it detects any conflicts.
> (ld.so doesn't use MAP_FIXED for the initial ET_DYN mapping even when
> prelinking.)
> 
> > instead ld.so has to be prelinked to an offset that comes after
> > all other prelinked libraries in the system, then the kernel
> > will place it after all other libraries at runtime.
> >
> > i don't have a prelinked system to check if this is the case.  
> 
> I tried on glibc 2.12-based system with prelink enabled and got this:
> 
> # ldd /bin/bash
> 	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffc7e798000)
> 	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib64/libtinfo.so.5 (0x0000003da9800000)
> 	libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x0000003da7400000)
> 	libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003da7800000)
> 	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f8dc919c000)
> # ldd /bin/bash
> 	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffef3bf4000)
> 	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib64/libtinfo.so.5 (0x0000003da9800000)
> 	libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x0000003da7400000)
> 	libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003da7800000)
> 	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff9e66a6000)
> # eu-readelf -d /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
> 
> Dynamic segment contains 25 entries:
>  Addr: 0x0000003da7220df0  Offset: 0x020df0  Link to section: [ 5]
> '.dynstr' Type              Value
>   SONAME            Library soname: [ld-linux-x86-64.so.2]
>   HASH              0x0000003da70001f0
>   GNU_HASH          0x0000003da70002a8
>   STRTAB            0x0000003da7000608
>   SYMTAB            0x0000003da7000380
>   STRSZ             380 (bytes)
>   SYMENT            24 (bytes)
>   PLTGOT            0x0000003da7220f80
>   PLTRELSZ          144 (bytes)
>   PLTREL            RELA
>   JMPREL            0x0000003da7000a30
>   RELA              0x0000003da7000868
>   RELASZ            456 (bytes)
>   RELAENT           24 (bytes)
>   VERDEF            0x0000003da70007c0
>   VERDEFNUM         5
>   BIND_NOW          
>   FLAGS_1           NOW
>   VERSYM            0x0000003da7000784
>   RELACOUNT         16
>   CHECKSUM          0x00000000e90e92bc
>   GNU_PRELINKED     0x00000000616d5a26
>   NULL              
>   NULL              
>   NULL
> # 
> 
> As expected based on the previous discussion here, the kernel maps
> ld.so at random addresses even though it has been prelinked.
> 
> This looks like another place where ASLR layout as to be tweaked
> carefully to avoid obscure failure modes.
> 

Do we have any idea on how to move forward with this issue?

> Thanks,
> Florian
> 

Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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