Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 20:33:48 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 229708] Don't require the program header for ELF files fit in the first page Message-ID: <bug-229708-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229708 Bug ID: 229708 Summary: Don't require the program header for ELF files fit in the first page Product: Base System Version: 11.2-RELEASE Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: bin Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: alex.arslan@julialang.org According to a comment in libexec/rtld-elf/map_object.c, "We rely on the program header being in the first page. This is not strictly required by the ABI specification, but it seems to always true in practice. And, it simplifies things considerably." This assumption is quickly violated when using tools such as patchelf, which often relocates the program header to the end of the ELF header, causing it to no longer fit within the first page. While perhaps not the most ideal behavior, it doesn't appear to violate any ABI specifications. The build system for the Julia language (https://julialang.org), which supports FreeBSD, and our new dependency cross-compilation system (https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/BinaryBuilder.jl), which supports building for FreeBSD, make heavy use of patchelf for setting RPATHs. That has caused a number of issues for us on FreeBSD though, because we run into FreeBSD's incomplete implementation of the ABI specification, making shared libraries unloadable. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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