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.
Since the CPU already does almost all necessary validation steps
for us, we don't really need to attempt to do this. Doing it
ourselves doesn't really work very reliably, because we'd have to
account for other processors modifying virtual memory, and we'd
have to account for e.g. pages not being able to be allocated
due to insufficient resources.
So change the copy_to/from_user (and associated helper functions)
to use the new safe_memcpy, which will return whether it succeeded
or not. The only manual validation step needed (which the CPU
can't perform for us) is making sure the pointers provided by user
mode aren't pointing to kernel mappings.
To make it easier to read/write from/to either kernel or user mode
data add the UserOrKernelBuffer helper class, which will internally
either use copy_from/to_user or directly memcpy, or pass the data
through directly using a temporary buffer on the stack.
Last but not least we need to keep syscall params trivial as we
need to copy them from/to user mode using copy_from/to_user.
Setting it in load() excludes users of ELF::Loader that don't actually
call load() but only use the Loader for symbolication purposes.
Perhaps the factoring here is not ideal.
If a buffer smaller than Elf32_Ehdr was passed to Image, header()
would do an out-of-bounds read.
Make parse() check for that. Make most Image methods assert that the image
is_valid(). For that to work, set m_valid early in Image::parse()
instead of only at its end.
Also reorder a few things so that the fuzzer doesn't hit (valid)
assertions, which were harmless from a security PoV but which still
allowed userspace to crash the kernel with an invalid ELF file.
Make dbgprintf()s configurable at run time so that the fuzzer doesn't
produce lots of logspam.
This function did a const_cast internally which made the call side look
"safe". This method is removed completely and call sites are replaced
with ByteBuffer::wrap(const_cast<void*>(data), size) which makes the
behaviour obvious.
The AT_* entries are placed after the environment variables, so that
they can be found by iterating until the end of the envp array, and then
going even further beyond :^)
This was supposed to be the foundation for some kind of pre-kernel
environment, but nobody is working on it right now, so let's move
everything back into the kernel and remove all the confusion.
Store the offset in the string table for the DT_SONAME entry. Now that
the build uses cmake, cmake is helpfully passing --Wl,-soname to the
linker for shared objects. This makes the LinkDemo run again.
functrace traces the function calls a program makes.
It's like strace, but for userspace.
It works by using Debugging functionality to insert breakpoints
at call&ret instructions.
ELF::DynamicLoader now validates the ELF header and the program headers
in its constructor. The requested program interpreter from the
PT_INTERP program header is now avaiable via a getter. The dynamic
loader program will want to check that this matches its name, for extra
shenanigans checking.
These validate_elf_* methods really had no business being static
methods of ELF::Image. Now that the ELF namespace exists, it makes
sense to just move them to be free functions in the namespace.
To make repeated symbolication requests faster, we now cache the symbol
count on ELFLoader instead of looking it up in the image each time.
We also cache the demangled versions of names after looking them up the
first time. This is a huge speedup for ProfileViewer. :^)
