bFLT binaries are usually created using elf2flt.
The linker script used by elf2flt has defined the .data section like the following for the last 19 years:
.data : { _sdata = . ; __data_start = . ; data_start = . ; *(.got.plt) *(.got) FILL(0) ; . = ALIGN(0x20) ; LONG(-1) . = ALIGN(0x20) ; ... }
It places the .got.plt input section before the .got input section. The same is true for the default linker script (ld --verbose) on most architectures except x86/x86-64.
The binfmt_flat loader should relocate all GOT entries until it encounters a -1 (the LONG(-1) in the linker script).
The problem is that the .got.plt input section starts with a GOTPLT header that has the first word (two u32 entries for 64-bit archs) set to -1. See e.g. the binutils implementation for architectures [1] [2] [3] [4].
This causes the binfmt_flat loader to stop relocating GOT entries prematurely and thus causes the application to crash when running.
Fix this by ignoring -1 in the first two u32 entries in the .data section.
A -1 will only be ignored for the first two entries for bFLT binaries with FLAT_FLAG_GOTPIC set, which is unconditionally set by elf2flt if the supplied ELF binary had the symbol _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ defined, therefore ELF binaries without a .got input section should remain unaffected.
Tested on RISC-V Canaan Kendryte K210 and RISC-V QEMU nommu_virt_defconfig.
[1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=bfd/elfnn-riscv.... [2] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=bfd/elfxx-tilegx... [3] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=bfd/elf32-tilepr... [4] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=bfd/elfnn-loonga...
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel niklas.cassel@wdc.com --- RISC-V elf2flt patches are still not merged, they can be found here: https://github.com/floatious/elf2flt/tree/riscv
buildroot branch for k210 nommu (including this patch and elf2flt patches): https://github.com/floatious/buildroot/tree/k210-v14
fs/binfmt_flat.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_flat.c b/fs/binfmt_flat.c index 626898150011..b80009e6392e 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_flat.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_flat.c @@ -793,8 +793,17 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm, u32 addr, rp_val; if (get_user(rp_val, rp)) return -EFAULT; - if (rp_val == 0xffffffff) + /* + * The first word in the GOTPLT header is -1 on certain + * architechtures. (On 64-bit, that is two u32 entries.) + * Ignore these entries, so that we stop relocating GOT + * entries first when we encounter the -1 after the GOT. + */ + if (rp_val == 0xffffffff) { + if (rp - (u32 __user *)datapos < 2) + continue; break; + } if (rp_val) { addr = calc_reloc(rp_val, libinfo, id, 0); if (addr == RELOC_FAILED) {