When debugging qemu-user processes using gdbstub, the following warning
appears every time:
warning: BFD: warning: system-supplied DSO at 0x7f8253cc3000 has a corrupt string table index
The reason is that QEMU does not map the VDSO's section headers. The
VDSO's ELF header's e_shoff points to zeros, which GDB fails to parse.
The difference with the kernel's VDSO is that the latter is mapped as a
blob, ignoring program headers - which also don't cover the section
table. QEMU, on the other hand, loads it as an ELF file.
There appears to be no way to place section headers inside a section,
and, therefore, no way to refer to them from a linker script. Also, ld
hardcodes section headers to be non-loadable, see
_bfd_elf_assign_file_positions_for_non_load(). In theory ld could be
enhanced by implementing an "SHDRS" keyword in addition to the existing
"FILEHDR" and "PHDRS".
There are multiple ways to resolve the issue:
- Copy VDSO as a blob in load_elf_vdso(). This would require creating
specialized loader logic, that duplicates parts of load_elf_image().
- Fix up VDSO's PHDR size in load_elf_vdso(). This would require either
duplicating the parsing logic, or adding an ugly parameter to
load_elf_image().
- Fix up VDSO's PHDR size in gen-vdso. This is the simplest solution,
so do it.
There are two tricky parts:
- Byte-swaps need to be done either on local copies, or in-place and
then reverted in the end. To preserve the existing code structure, do
the former for Sym and Dyn, and the latter for Ehdr, Phdr, and Shdr.
- There must be no .bss, which is already the case - but having an
explicit check is helpful to ensure correctness.
To verify this change, I diffed the on-disk and the loaded VDSOs; the
result does not show anything unusual, except for what seems to be an
existing oversight (which should probably be fixed separately):
│ Symbol table '.dynsym' contains 8 entries:
│ Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
│ - 0: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND
│ - 6: 0000000000000000 0 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT ABS LINUX_2.6.29
│ + 0: 00007f61075bf000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND
│ + 6: 00007f61075bf000 0 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT ABS LINUX_2.6.29
Fixes: 2fa536d107 ("linux-user: Add gen-vdso tool")
Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20241023202850.55211-1-iii@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
This tool will be used for post-processing the linked vdso image,
turning it into something that is easy to include into elfload.c.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
