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Bug #2186
openELF files with libc.so.1 as interpreter report errors badly
Status:
New
Priority:
Low
Assignee:
-
Category:
lib - userland libraries
Start date:
2012-02-26
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Difficulty:
Expert
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needs-triage
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Description
As mentioned in #1487, if libc is the interpretter for a given ELF executable (GNU binutils does this, it seems), and errors occur when mapping the runtime linker the reported error information is not entirely forthcoming, and is also misformed.
There are a few problems here.
- We pass the name of the executable to f.PANIC, but we newer call write() to display it, we just display s.ERROR. This is why the error in #1487 has a leading colon. The program name should have been before there. There's a missing call f.WRITE which should have output.
- In certain cases, the messages which are reported aren't useful. They assume that the problem is with ld.so.1, which it will be in about 99% of cases, but there are two cases, the open and mmap of /dev/zero, which don't. These being what #1487 ran directly into.
Anyone fixing this should be aware that this code runs, by definition, prior to runtime linking. Relocation has not been performed, functions not carefully defined may not be called, data requiring relocation may not be accessed. Everything is very, very carefully arranged and (obviously) must remain so.
In the simplest case you would:
- Define a new string, in the style of s.ERROR, to complain about /dev/zero instead
- Write a new, f.PANIC-like function to display this error
It is possible less simple in practice.
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