[PATCH] x86: clean up vdso-layout.lds.S

From: Petr Tesarik
Date: Mon Jun 01 2009 - 10:05:31 EST


The handling of various sections in the VDSO linker script
looks pretty haphazard. This patch cleans it up in this
regards:

- re-order sections to more closely match the result of
a normal shared link
- discard sections which are not useful to user-space
- issue a linker error if a section is encountered which
is known not to work
- check that the .got section is empty, except for the
three entries defined by the ABI

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@xxxxxxx>

---
Makefile | 5 ++--
vdso-layout.lds.S | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile b/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile
index 16a9020..8c7f06a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ $(obj)/vdso.o: $(obj)/vdso.so

targets += vdso.so vdso.so.dbg vdso.lds $(vobjs-y)

-export CPPFLAGS_vdso.lds += -P -C
+vdso-cppflags = -P -C
+export CPPFLAGS_vdso.lds += -m64 $(vdso-cppflags)

VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso.lds = -m elf_x86_64 -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
-Wl,-z,max-page-size=4096 -Wl,-z,common-page-size=4096
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ vdso32.so-$(VDSO32-y) += sysenter

vdso32-images = $(vdso32.so-y:%=vdso32-%.so)

-CPPFLAGS_vdso32.lds = $(CPPFLAGS_vdso.lds)
+CPPFLAGS_vdso32.lds = -m32 $(vdso-cppflags)
VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso32.lds = -m elf_i386 -Wl,-soname=linux-gate.so.1

# This makes sure the $(obj) subdirectory exists even though vdso32/
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S
index 634a2cf..1f4b215 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S
@@ -22,16 +22,15 @@ SECTIONS
.eh_frame : { KEEP (*(.eh_frame)) } :text

.dynamic : { *(.dynamic) } :text :dynamic
+ .got : { *(.got.plt) *(.got) } :text

- .rodata : { *(.rodata*) } :text
+ .rodata : {
+ *(.rodata .rodata.* .gnu.linkonce.r.*)
+ }
.data : {
- *(.data*)
- *(.sdata*)
- *(.got.plt) *(.got)
- *(.gnu.linkonce.d.*)
- *(.bss*)
- *(.dynbss*)
- *(.gnu.linkonce.b.*)
+ *(.data .data.* .gnu.linkonce.d.*)
+ *(.bss .bss.* .gnu.linkonce.b.*)
+ *(COMMON)
}

.altinstructions : { *(.altinstructions) }
@@ -43,9 +42,49 @@ SECTIONS
*/
. = ALIGN(0x100);

- .text : { *(.text*) } :text =0x90909090
+ .text : {
+ *(.text .text.* .gnu.linkonce.t.*)
+ } :text =0x90909090
+
+ /* We would need a more sophisticated dynamic linker for the
+ * vDSO to make the following sections work. Put them into
+ * a special section and raise a link-time error if they get
+ * used.
+ */
+ .broken : {
+ /* Code in the Procedure Linkage Table will segfault */
+ *(.plt)
+
+ /* Relocation will not be done, so any pointers will
+ * still point to the prelinked address, which is wrong
+ */
+ *(.data.rel.ro*)
+ *(.gnu.linkonce.d.rel.ro.*)
+
+ /* Initialization/termination won't work this way */
+ *(.init) *(.fini)
+ *(.preinit_array) *(.init_array*)
+ *(.fini_array*)
+
+ /* Thread-local data cannot be defined like this */
+ *(.tdata .tdata.* .gnu.linkonce.td.*)
+ *(.tbss .tbss.* .gnu.linkonce.tb.*)
+ *(.tcommon)
+ }
+
+ /* These sections are not useful */
+ /DISCARD/ : {
+ *(.gnu.warning.*)
+ *(.note.GNU-stack)
+ }
}

+ASSERT(!SIZEOF(.broken), "VDSO contains sections that don't work properly");
+
+/* Check that GOT has only the three entries defined by the ABI */
+ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got) == 3*__SIZEOF_POINTER__,
+ "Found extra GOT entries. Check your use of external vars.");
+
/*
* Very old versions of ld do not recognize this name token; use the constant.
*/


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