On 10/23/24 21:27, Ilya Leoshkevich wrote:
When debugging qemu-user processes using gdbstub, the following warning appears every time:warning: BFD: warning: system-supplied DSO at 0x7f8253cc3000 has a corrupt string table index The reason is that QEMU does not map the VDSO's section headers. The VDSO's ELF header's e_shoff points to zeros, which GDB fails to parse. The difference with the kernel's VDSO is that the latter is mapped as a blob, ignoring program headers - which also don't cover the section table. QEMU, on the other hand, loads it as an ELF file. There appears to be no way to place section headers inside a section, and, therefore, no way to refer to them from a linker script. Also, ld hardcodes section headers to be non-loadable, see _bfd_elf_assign_file_positions_for_non_load(). In theory ld could be enhanced by implementing an "SHDRS" keyword in addition to the existing "FILEHDR" and "PHDRS". There are multiple ways to resolve the issue: - Copy VDSO as a blob in load_elf_vdso(). This would require creating specialized loader logic, that duplicates parts of load_elf_image(). - Fix up VDSO's PHDR size in load_elf_vdso(). This would require either duplicating the parsing logic, or adding an ugly parameter to load_elf_image(). - Fix up VDSO's PHDR size in gen-vdso. This is the simplest solution, so do it. There are two tricky parts: - Byte-swaps need to be done either on local copies, or in-place and then reverted in the end. To preserve the existing code structure, do the former for Sym and Dyn, and the latter for Ehdr, Phdr, and Shdr. - There must be no .bss, which is already the case - but having an explicit check is helpful to ensure correctness. To verify this change, I diffed the on-disk and the loaded VDSOs; the result does not show anything unusual, except for what seems to be an existing oversight (which should probably be fixed separately): │ Symbol table '.dynsym' contains 8 entries: │ Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name │ - 0: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND │ - 6: 0000000000000000 0 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT ABS LINUX_2.6.29 │ + 0: 00007f61075bf000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND │ + 6: 00007f61075bf000 0 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT ABS LINUX_2.6.29 Fixes: 2fa536d10797 ("linux-user: Add gen-vdso tool") Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <[email protected]> --- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]/ v1 -> v2: Check that there is no bss, mention linker scripts in the commit message (Richard).
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <[email protected]> r~
