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authorMoritz Angermann <moritz.angermann@gmail.com>2021-06-22 15:39:44 +0800
committerGHC GitLab CI <ghc-ci@gitlab-haskell.org>2021-06-22 22:31:24 +0800
commitd2e6fdd57ffdd7497e3149779df533b8599d5643 (patch)
tree1471caa1f07ededc25bcba8bebaf19ab412d8229
parent62d720db4f6a53014400a608baf5c56555258eee (diff)
downloadhaskell-wip/angerman/fix-macho-linker.tar.gz
[aarch64-macho] Fix off-by-one error in the linkerwip/angerman/fix-macho-linker
We need to be careful about the sign bit for BR26 relocation otherwise we end up encoding a large positive number and reading back a large negative number.
-rw-r--r--rts/linker/MachO.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/rts/linker/MachO.c b/rts/linker/MachO.c
index cdafcb1c89..1a18ee6a74 100644
--- a/rts/linker/MachO.c
+++ b/rts/linker/MachO.c
@@ -551,7 +551,17 @@ relocateSectionAarch64(ObjectCode * oc, Section * section)
} else {
value = (uint64_t)symbol->addr; // address of the symbol.
}
- if((value - pc + addend) >> (2 + 26)) {
+ // We've got:
+ // + 2 bits, for alignment
+ // + 26 bits for for the relocation value
+ // - 1 bit for signage.
+ //
+ // Thus we can encode 26 bits for relocation, including the sign
+ // bit. However as branches need to be 4-byte aligned, we only
+ // need 26 bits to address a 28 bit range. Thus discarding the
+ // sign bit, we can encode a range of +/- 27bits.
+ //
+ if((value - pc + addend) >> (2 + 26 - 1)) {
/* we need a stub */
/* check if we already have that stub */
if(findStub(section, (void**)&value, 0)) {