Let's adapt this class a bit better to how it's actually being used.
Instead of having valid/invalid states and storing an error in case
it's invalid, a MappedFile is now always valid, and the factory
function that creates it will return an OSError if mapping fails.
AT_SECURE is set in the auxiliary vector when we execute setuid/setgid
programs.
In those cases, we do not want to read environment variables that
influence the logic of the dynamic loader, as they can be controlled
by the user.
If set, the dynamic loader will perform a software breakpoint after
loading all libraries, and just before jumping to the main entry point.
This allows a debugger to inspect the loaded libraries before the
program starts executing.
A strong symbol anywhere in an executable must override any
weak symbol used in any library. This means that the weak symbol
must be overridden by a strong symbol even if the strong symbol
is in a dependent library. This means we need to perform relocations
twice, and resolve weak symbols globally before attempting to resolve
them locally. Consequentially we need to defer performing any
initialisations until after we have performed the second round of
relocations.
Loader.so now just performs the initial self relocations and static
LibC initialisation before handing over to ELF::DynamicLinker::linker_main
to handle the rest of the process.
As a trade-off, ELF::DynamicLinker needs to be explicitly excluded from
Lagom unless we really want to try writing a cross platform dynamic loader
Compared to version 10 this fixes a bunch of formatting issues, mostly
around structs/classes with attributes like [[gnu::packed]], and
incorrect insertion of spaces in parameter types ("T &"/"T &&").
I also removed a bunch of // clang-format off/on and FIXME comments that
are no longer relevant - on the other hand it tried to destroy a couple of
neatly formatted comments, so I had to add some as well.
This is a new NotesEntry type which will allow applications to embed
arbitrary metadata in crashdumps (stored as a JSON string). It will be
used to store an assertion message, for example.
This is a new NotesEntry type which contains information related to the
coredump's process:
- PID
- executable path
Having these in the coredump explicitly avoids having to parse them from
the coredump filename and backtrace, respectively.
We now map most shared library text segments shared, read+exec only.
This reduces our memory footprint at system startup by 16 MB which is
pretty neat! :^)
Problem:
- C functions with no arguments require a single `void` in the argument list.
Solution:
- Put the `void` in the argument list of functions in C header files.
Make it possible to bail out of ELF::Image::for_each_program_header()
and then do exactly that if something goes wrong during executable
loading in the kernel.
Also make the errors we return slightly more nuanced than just ENOEXEC.
This commit gets rid of ELF::Loader entirely since its very ambiguous
purpose was actually to load executables for the kernel, and that is
now handled by the kernel itself.
This patch includes some drive-by cleanup in LibDebug and CrashDaemon
enabled by the fact that we no longer need to keep the ref-counted
ELF::Loader around.
It was really weird that ELF loading was performed by the ELF::Loader
class instead of just being done by the kernel itself. This patch moves
all the layout logic from ELF::Loader over to sys$execve().
The kernel no longer cares about ELF::Loader and instead only uses an
ELF::Image as an interpreting wrapper around executables.
Now that the CrashDaemon symbolicates crashes in userspace, let's take
this one step further and stop trying to symbolicate userspace programs
in the kernel at all.
We now configure the gcc spec files to use a different crt files for
static & PIE binaries.
This relieves us from the need to explicitly specify the desired crt0
file in cmake scripts.
Problem:
- `(void)` simply casts the expression to void. This is understood to
indicate that it is ignored, but this is really a compiler trick to
get the compiler to not generate a warning.
Solution:
- Use the `[[maybe_unused]]` attribute to indicate the value is unused.
Note:
- Functions taking a `(void)` argument list have also been changed to
`()` because this is not needed and shows up in the same grep
command.
When a process crashes, we generate a coredump file and write it in
/tmp/coredumps/.
The coredump file is an ELF file of type ET_CORE.
It contains a segment for every userspace memory region of the process,
and an additional PT_NOTE segment that contains the registers state for
each thread, and a additional data about memory regions
(e.g their name).
The dynamic loader exists as /usr/lib/Loader.so and is loaded by the
kernel when ET_DYN programs are executed.
The dynamic loader is responsible for loading the dependencies of the
main program, allocating TLS storage, preparing all loaded objects for
execution and finally jumping to the entry of the main program.
When the main executable needs an interpreter, we load the requested
interpreter program, and pass to it an open file decsriptor to the main
executable via the auxiliary vector.
Note that we do not allocate a TLS region for the interpreter.
This should catch more malformed ELF files earlier than simply
checking the ELF header alone. Also change the API of
validate_program_headers to take the interpreter_path by pointer. This
makes it less awkward to call when we don't care about the interpreter,
and just want the validation.
