Reduce the statically linked startup code [BZ #23323]
authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 11:10:57 +0000 (12:10 +0100)
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 11:13:02 +0000 (12:13 +0100)
commit035c012e32c11e84d64905efaf55e74f704d3668
tree7b08a9e9cbd8e4dd2e420cd6b7c204aeb5d61ccc
parenta79328c745219dcb395070cdcd3be065a8347f24
Reduce the statically linked startup code [BZ #23323]

It turns out the startup code in csu/elf-init.c has a perfect pair of
ROP gadgets (see Marco-Gisbert and Ripoll-Ripoll, "return-to-csu: A
New Method to Bypass 64-bit Linux ASLR").  These functions are not
needed in dynamically-linked binaries because DT_INIT/DT_INIT_ARRAY
are already processed by the dynamic linker.  However, the dynamic
linker skipped the main program for some reason.  For maximum
backwards compatibility, this is not changed, and instead, the main
map is consulted from __libc_start_main if the init function argument
is a NULL pointer.

For statically linked binaries, the old approach based on linker
symbols is still used because there is nothing else available.

A new symbol version __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 is introduced because
new binaries running on an old libc would not run their ELF
constructors, leading to difficult-to-debug issues.
63 files changed:
csu/Makefile
csu/Versions
csu/elf-init.c [deleted file]
csu/libc-start.c
elf/dl-init.c
sysdeps/aarch64/start.S
sysdeps/alpha/start.S
sysdeps/arc/start.S
sysdeps/arm/start.S
sysdeps/csky/abiv2/start.S
sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
sysdeps/hppa/dl-lookupcfg.h
sysdeps/hppa/start.S
sysdeps/i386/start.S
sysdeps/ia64/dl-lookupcfg.h
sysdeps/ia64/start.S
sysdeps/m68k/start.S
sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386/libc.abilist
sysdeps/microblaze/start.S
sysdeps/mips/start.S
sysdeps/nios2/start.S
sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/start.S
sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/start.S
sysdeps/riscv/start.S
sysdeps/s390/s390-32/start.S
sysdeps/s390/s390-64/start.S
sysdeps/sh/start.S
sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/start.S
sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/start.S
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arc/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/be/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/le/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/csky/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/coldfire/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/m680x0/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/microblaze/be/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/microblaze/le/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/fpu/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/nofpu/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips64/n32/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips64/n64/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nios2/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/libc-start.c
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/fpu/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/nofpu/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/be/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/le/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/rv32/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/rv64/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/be/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/le/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/libc.abilist
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/x32/libc.abilist
sysdeps/x86_64/start.S