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authorMark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>2018-06-12 12:54:35 +0200
committerMark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>2018-06-22 17:52:34 +0200
commitdd813335c352adb53972bdc63495650dba0c987f (patch)
treedec852640f6c473f89895a33dca5e7afa283b02e
parentc1990d36cfe37a30bcc49422c37a6767fd190559 (diff)
downloadelfutils-dd813335c352adb53972bdc63495650dba0c987f.tar.gz
libelf: Don't return unaligned data returned from elf_getdata[_rawchunk].
For i386 and x86_64 we allow some unaligned data accesses. We also return unaligned data from elf_getdata[_rawchunk]. But that might go wrong if we then access the ELF types inside. When build with gcc -O3 for example the compiler might vectorize loops accessing ELF words or types. The instructions used do require the data is naturally aligned. If the function returnes unaligned data the program will segfault and crash. This happens for example with the code in dwfl_module_getdwarf.c that tries to iterate over the hash buckets gotten through elf_getdata_rawchunk based on the DT_[GNU]_HASH value. This only happens when the underlying ELF file is mmapped, and it is meant as optimization so that we don't have to copy data first so that it is correctly aligned. In most cases the data is already naturally aligned though. But it might not be for non-native ELF files. Given that it might even happen in our own code base and these are public functions that can be used by code that might rely on the data returned being correctly aligned for the ELF data type requested just always return correctly aligned data. Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
-rw-r--r--libelf/ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--libelf/elf_getdata.c5
-rw-r--r--libelf/elf_getdata_rawchunk.c3
-rw-r--r--libelf/libelfP.h4
4 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/libelf/ChangeLog b/libelf/ChangeLog
index ec97caaf..91d9b472 100644
--- a/libelf/ChangeLog
+++ b/libelf/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2018-06-19 Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
+
+ * libelfP.h (__libelf_type_align): Remove !ALLOW_UNALIGNED guard.
+ * elf_getdata.c (__libelf_type_aligns): Likewise.
+ (convert_data): Remove ALLOW_UNALIGNED check.
+ * elf_getdata_rawchunk.c (elf_getdata_rawchunk): Likewise.
+
2018-06-21 Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
* elf.h: Update from glibc.
diff --git a/libelf/elf_getdata.c b/libelf/elf_getdata.c
index 97c503b5..278dfa8f 100644
--- a/libelf/elf_getdata.c
+++ b/libelf/elf_getdata.c
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ static const Elf_Type shtype_map[EV_NUM - 1][TYPEIDX (SHT_HISUNW) + 1] =
}
};
-#if !ALLOW_UNALIGNED
/* Associate libelf types with their internal alignment requirements. */
const uint_fast8_t __libelf_type_aligns[EV_NUM - 1][ELFCLASSNUM - 1][ELF_T_NUM] =
{
@@ -115,7 +114,6 @@ const uint_fast8_t __libelf_type_aligns[EV_NUM - 1][ELFCLASSNUM - 1][ELF_T_NUM]
}
# undef TYPE_ALIGNS
};
-#endif
Elf_Type
@@ -173,8 +171,7 @@ convert_data (Elf_Scn *scn, int version __attribute__ ((unused)), int eclass,
/* Make sure the source is correctly aligned for the conversion
function to directly access the data elements. */
char *rawdata_source;
- if (ALLOW_UNALIGNED ||
- ((((size_t) (char *) scn->rawdata_base)) & (align - 1)) == 0)
+ if (((((size_t) (char *) scn->rawdata_base)) & (align - 1)) == 0)
rawdata_source = scn->rawdata_base;
else
{
diff --git a/libelf/elf_getdata_rawchunk.c b/libelf/elf_getdata_rawchunk.c
index 31b2fe7d..d0c0b75f 100644
--- a/libelf/elf_getdata_rawchunk.c
+++ b/libelf/elf_getdata_rawchunk.c
@@ -80,8 +80,7 @@ elf_getdata_rawchunk (Elf *elf, off_t offset, size_t size, Elf_Type type)
{
/* If the file is mmap'ed we can use it directly, if aligned for type. */
char *rawdata = elf->map_address + elf->start_offset + offset;
- if (ALLOW_UNALIGNED ||
- ((uintptr_t) rawdata & (align - 1)) == 0)
+ if (((uintptr_t) rawdata & (align - 1)) == 0)
rawchunk = rawdata;
else
{
diff --git a/libelf/libelfP.h b/libelf/libelfP.h
index ca805ac4..ed216c8c 100644
--- a/libelf/libelfP.h
+++ b/libelf/libelfP.h
@@ -443,15 +443,11 @@ extern int __libelf_version_initialized attribute_hidden;
# define LIBELF_EV_IDX (__libelf_version - 1)
#endif
-#if !ALLOW_UNALIGNED
/* Array with alignment requirements of the internal types indexed by ELF
version, binary class, and type. */
extern const uint_fast8_t __libelf_type_aligns[EV_NUM - 1][ELFCLASSNUM - 1][ELF_T_NUM] attribute_hidden;
# define __libelf_type_align(class, type) \
(__libelf_type_aligns[LIBELF_EV_IDX][class - 1][type] ?: 1)
-#else
-# define __libelf_type_align(class, type) 1
-#endif
/* Given an Elf handle and a section type returns the Elf_Data d_type.
Should not be called when SHF_COMPRESSED is set, the d_type should