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Re: Adding static-PIE support to binutils


On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:42:56PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 02:19:34PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
> > > For background on the static PIE model I'm working with, see the
> > > following post to the GCC list:
> > >
> > > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2015-06/msg00008.html
> > >
> > > So far, I've been prototyping static PIE support by having GCC pass
> > > the following options to ld instead of -static -pie:
> > >
> > >         -static -shared -Bsymbolic
> > >
> > > This partly works, but since ld does not know it's producing a main
> > > executable, it misses important details, including the ability to link
> > > initial-exec and local-exec model TLS code correctly, as well as
> > > various linking optimizations. So I think the right way forward is
> > > making ld accept -static and -pie together to do the right thing.
> > >
> > > In elflink.c, _bfd_elf_link_create_dynamic_sections assumes that
> > > executables should always have a .interp section.
> > > bfd_elf_size_dynamic_sections asserts this assumption again, and the
> > > individual elf??-*.c files also do so in *_elf_size_dynamic_sections
> > > where they set a default interpreter. (Is this even useful? Most of
> > > the names are out of touch with reality, and GCC always passes an
> > > explicit -dynamic-linker anyway, so I think this code should just be
> > > removed.)
> > >
> > > Now I have a working prototype by changing the info->executable
> > > condition to info->executable && info->dynamic, and having lexsup.c
> > > store the value of input_flags.dynamic in link_info.dynamic after
> > > processing the command line, but I'm not sure if this is the right
> > > approach.
> > 
> > It is OK to use -static/-Bstatic/-non_shared with -shared and -pie.
> > I think you want --no-dynamic-linker.
> 
> I see two overall approaches to making the option to omit .interp:
> 
> 1. In elflink.c, make the creation of the .interp section conditional
>    on a new field in link_info.
> 
> 2. In ld code (ldlang.c? elf32.em?), check the command line option and
>    remove the .interp section before it can be processed.
> 
> I think option 1 is a lot cleaner, but it's also going to be a lot
> more invasive, because every single target arch (elf32-*.c and
> elf64-*.c) has its own ASSERT that the .interp section exists. These
> would also need to be updated to either check the new field in
> link_info, or to replace the ASSERT with a conditional.
> 
> Before I spend a lot of time implementing one or the other, do you
> have any feelings on which way would be appropriate?

I went ahead and did option 1 modulo all the target code except sh
which is where I'm testing it. My work-in-progress patch is attached.
This is obviously not ready to submit but I would appreciate any
feedback that's possible at this stage.

Rich

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