Fix __bss_start assertion failure in _bfd_elf_fix_symbol_flags
> Building LLVM 6.0 on FreeBSD/powerpc (devel/llvm60 port) the assertion
> in the subject trips (displays twice) when linking libLTO.so.1. The
> issue has been filed in FreeBSD's bugzilla, at
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237068 . It appears
> the 'llvm::hashing::detail::get_execution_seed()::seed@@JL_LLVM_6.0'
> symbol is being weakly aliased to an indirect symbol
> __bss_start@@JL_LLVM_6.0. Since __bss_start@@JL_LLVM_6.0 is an
> indirect symbol, it fails the assertion.
I haven't looked under a debugger at your testcase but I think I know
what is going on here. You have a shared library with a weakly
defined llvm::hashing::detail::get_execution_seed()::seed which
happens to be at the same location as __bss_start in that library. At
the time the linker loads symbols for that library, it sees they are
both versioned and thus introduces non-versioned indirect symbols for
them. The linker considers the symbols as possibly being aliases,
setting up h->u.alias and h->is_weakalias such that
__bss_start@@JL_LLVM_6.0 is the definition. No real problem so far,
the definition is bfd_link_hash_defined, except that the zero size, no
type __bss_start symbol possibly should not be considered an alias in
the first place.
Later, __bss_start as defined by the linker script is entered into the
linker symbol table. This is similar to __bss_start being defined by
a regular object file in that ELF symbol resolution rules say that the
value of __bss_start in the library is overridden by __bss_start in
the executable/library being produced. So to accomplish the override,
ld flips __bss_start from being an indirect symbol pointing at
__bss_start@@JL_LLVM_6.0 to __bss_start@@JL_LLVM_6.0 being an indirect
symbol pointing at __bss_start. That's how we get an unexpected
indirect symbol and hit the assert.
What should happen I think, is for the def->def_regular code above the
assert to run in this case. The symbols are no longer aliases.
* elflink.c (_bfd_elf_fix_symbol_flags): If the def for an
alias is no longer bfd_link_hash_defined, clear the alias.