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Message-ID: <20250209140424.GX10433@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 09:04:24 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: Yao Zi <ziyao@...root.org>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] ldso: don't reclaim zero-memory-sized
 segments

On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 05:51:01AM +0000, Yao Zi wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the ping. Applying.

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