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Message-ID: <Z6bwxTqJwtoq6J1O@pie.lan>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 05:51:01 +0000
From: Yao Zi <ziyao@...root.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] ldso: don't reclaim zero-memory-sized
 segments

On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 03:44:47AM +0000, Yao Zi wrote:
> Some weird linkers may emit PT_LOAD segments with memsz = 0. ELF
> specification does not forbid this, but such a segment with non-zero
> p_vaddr will result in reclaiming of invalid memory address.
> 
> This patch skips such segments during reclaiming for better
> compatibility.

Ping on this patch, someone has been hitting this[1].

Thanks for your time and review!

> Signed-off-by: Yao Zi <ziyao@...root.org>
> ---
>  ldso/dynlink.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/ldso/dynlink.c b/ldso/dynlink.c
> index 3b57c07f..715948f4 100644
> --- a/ldso/dynlink.c
> +++ b/ldso/dynlink.c
> @@ -616,6 +616,7 @@ static void reclaim_gaps(struct dso *dso)
>  	for (; phcnt--; ph=(void *)((char *)ph+dso->phentsize)) {
>  		if (ph->p_type!=PT_LOAD) continue;
>  		if ((ph->p_flags&(PF_R|PF_W))!=(PF_R|PF_W)) continue;
> +		if (ph->p_memsz == 0) continue;
>  		reclaim(dso, ph->p_vaddr & -PAGE_SIZE, ph->p_vaddr);
>  		reclaim(dso, ph->p_vaddr+ph->p_memsz,
>  			ph->p_vaddr+ph->p_memsz+PAGE_SIZE-1 & -PAGE_SIZE);
> -- 
> 2.46.0
> 

[1]: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2024-10/msg00012.html

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