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authorrwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>2009-01-25 12:07:43 +0000
committerrwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>2009-01-25 12:07:43 +0000
commit97295d8b7542439c9b300e61fbcfed8329a93a62 (patch)
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parentfab213569d4abe1b3f77a508ee755fc9ffc13a23 (diff)
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When a statically linked binary is executed (or at least, one without
an interpreter definition in its program header), set the auxiliary ELF argument AT_BASE to 0 rather than to the address that we would have mapped the interpreter at if there had been one. The ELF ABI specifications appear to be ambiguous as to the desired behavior in this situation, as they define AT_BASE as the base address of the interpreter, but do not mention what to do if there is none. On Solaris, AT_BASE will be set to the base address of the static binary if there is no interpreter, and on Linux, AT_BASE is set to 0. We go with the Linux semantics as they are of more immediate utility and allow the early runtime environment to know that the kernel has not mapped an interpreter, but because AT_PHDR points at the ELF header for the running binary, it is still possible to retrieve all required mapping information when the process starts should it be required. Either approach would be preferable to our current behavior of passing a pointer to an unmapped region of user memory as AT_BASE. MFC after: 3 weeks
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/kern/imgact_elf.c')
-rw-r--r--sys/kern/imgact_elf.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/kern/imgact_elf.c b/sys/kern/imgact_elf.c
index 431ee38..ec96974 100644
--- a/sys/kern/imgact_elf.c
+++ b/sys/kern/imgact_elf.c
@@ -822,7 +822,8 @@ __CONCAT(exec_, __elfN(imgact))(struct image_params *imgp)
uprintf("ELF interpreter %s not found\n", interp);
return (error);
}
- }
+ } else
+ addr = 0;
/*
* Construct auxargs table (used by the fixup routine)
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