This function is defined in libc.so, and the dynamic loader calls
right after relocation has been finished, before any ELF constructors
or the preinit function is invoked. It is also used in the static
build for initializing parts of the static libc.
To locate __libc_early_init, a direct symbol lookup function is used,
_dl_lookup_direct. It does not search the entire symbol scope and
consults merely a single link map. This function could also be used
to implement lookups in the vDSO (as an optimization).
A per-namespace variable (libc_map) is added for locating libc.so,
to avoid repeated traversals of the search scope. It is similar to
GL(dl_initfirst). An alternative would have been to thread a context
argument from _dl_open down to _dl_map_object_from_fd (where libc.so
is identified). This could have avoided the global variable, but
the change would be larger as a result. It would not have been
possible to use this to replace GL(dl_initfirst) because that global
variable is used to pass the function pointer past the stack switch
from dl_main to the main program. Replacing that requires adding
a new argument to _dl_init, which in turn needs changes to the
architecture-specific libc.so startup code written in assembler.
__libc_early_init should not be used to replace _dl_var_init (as
it exists today on some architectures). Instead, _dl_lookup_direct
should be used to look up a new variable symbol in libc.so, and
that should then be initialized from the dynamic loader, immediately
after the object has been loaded in _dl_map_object_from_fd (before
relocation is run). This way, more IFUNC resolvers which depend on
these variables will work.
MIPS needs to ignore certain existing symbols during symbol lookup.
The old scheme uses the ELF_MACHINE_SYM_NO_MATCH macro, with an
inline function, within its own header, with a sysdeps override for
MIPS. This allows re-use of the function from another file (without
having to include <dl-machine.h> or providing the default definition
for ELF_MACHINE_SYM_NO_MATCH).
Built with build-many-glibcs.py, with manual verification that
sysdeps/mips/elf_machine_sym_no_match.h is picked up on MIPS. Tested
on aarch64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, powerpc64-linux-gnu,
s390x-linux-gnu, x86_64-linux-gnu.
Move _dl_open_check to its original place in dl_open_worker
This reverts the non-test change from commit d0093c5cefb7f7a4143f
("Call _dl_open_check after relocation [BZ #24259]"), given that
the underlying bug has been fixed properly in commit 61b74477fa7f63
("Remove all loaded objects if dlopen fails, ignoring NODELETE
[BZ #20839]").
Tested on x86-64-linux-gnu, with and without --enable-cet.
Lazy binding in a signal handler that interrupts a dlopen sees
intermediate dynamic linker state. This has likely been always
unsafe, but with the new pending NODELETE state, this is clearly
incorrect. Other threads are excluded via the loader lock, but the
current thread is not. Blocking signals until right before ELF
constructors run is the safe thing to do.
Remove all loaded objects if dlopen fails, ignoring NODELETE [BZ #20839]
This introduces a “pending NODELETE” state in the link map, which is
flipped to the persistent NODELETE state late in dlopen, via
activate_nodelete. During initial relocation, symbol binding
records pending NODELETE state only. dlclose ignores pending NODELETE
state. Taken together, this results that a partially completed dlopen
is rolled back completely because new NODELETE mappings are unloaded.
Avoid late dlopen failure due to scope, TLS slotinfo updates [BZ #25112]
This change splits the scope and TLS slotinfo updates in dlopen into
two parts: one to resize the data structures, and one to actually apply
the update. The call to add_to_global_resize in dl_open_worker is moved
before the demarcation point at which no further memory allocations are
allowed.
_dl_add_to_slotinfo is adjusted to make the list update optional. There
is some optimization possibility here because we could grow the slotinfo
list of arrays in a single call, one the largest TLS modid is known.
This commit does not fix the fatal meory allocation failure in
_dl_update_slotinfo. Ideally, this error during dlopen should be
recoverable.
The update order of scopes and TLS data structures is retained, although
it appears to be more correct to fully initialize TLS first, and then
expose symbols in the newly loaded objects via the scope update.
Avoid late failure in dlopen in global scope update [BZ #25112]
The call to add_to_global in dl_open_worker happens after running ELF
constructors for new objects. At this point, proper recovery from
malloc failure would be quite complicated: We would have to run the
ELF destructors and close all opened objects, something that we
currently do not do.
Instead, this change splits add_to_global into two phases,
add_to_global_resize (which can raise an exception, called before ELF
constructors run), and add_to_global_update (which cannot, called
after ELF constructors). A complication arises due to recursive
dlopen: After the inner dlopen consumes some space, the pre-allocation
in the outer dlopen may no longer be sufficient. A new member in the
namespace structure, _ns_global_scope_pending_adds keeps track of the
maximum number of objects that need to be added to the global scope.
This enables the inner add_to_global_resize call to take into account
the needs of an outer dlopen.
Most code in the dynamic linker assumes that the number of global
scope entries fits into an unsigned int (matching the r_nlist member
of struct r_scop_elem). Therefore, change the type of
_ns_global_scope_alloc to unsigned int (from size_t), and add overflow
checks.
Lazy binding failures during dlopen/dlclose must be fatal [BZ #24304]
If a lazy binding failure happens during the execution of an ELF
constructor or destructor, the dynamic loader catches the error
and reports it using the dlerror mechanism. This is undesirable
because there could be other constructors and destructors that
need processing (which are skipped), and the process is in an
inconsistent state at this point. Therefore, we have to issue
a fatal dynamic loader error error and terminate the process.
Note that the _dl_catch_exception in _dl_open is just an inner catch,
to roll back some state locally. If called from dlopen, there is
still an outer catch, which is why calling _dl_init via call_dl_init
and a no-exception is required and cannot be avoiding by moving the
_dl_init call directly into _dl_open.
_dl_fini does not need changes because it does not install an error
handler, so errors are already fatal there.
resolv: Implement trust-ad option for /etc/resolv.conf [BZ #20358]
This introduces a concept of trusted name servers, for which the
AD bit is passed through to applications. For untrusted name
servers (the default), the AD bit in responses are cleared, to
provide a safe default.
dlsym: Do not determine caller link map if not needed
Obtaining the link map is potentially very slow because it requires
iterating over all loaded objects in the current implementation. If
the caller supplied an explicit handle (i.e., not one of the RTLD_*
constants), the dlsym implementation does not need the identity of the
caller (except in the special case of auditing), so this change
avoids computing it in that case.
Even in the minimal case (dlsym called from a main program linked with
-dl), this shows a small speedup, perhaps around five percent. The
performance improvement can be arbitrarily large in principle (if
_dl_find_dso_for_object has to iterate over many link maps).
