Bug 16381

Summary: Explicit loader invocation "ld.so ./a.out" on a PIE binary calls global ctors twice
Product: glibc Reporter: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov>
Component: dynamic-linkAssignee: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: stijnv
Priority: P2 Flags: fweimer: security-
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Host: Target:
Build: Last reconfirmed:

Description Paul Pluzhnikov 2013-12-30 22:31:31 UTC
Explicit loader invocation "ld.so ./a.out" on a PIE binary calls global ctors twice.
Confirmed with current trunk (e646a161cef3069fe1a6c92b750a87350630c62d).

Test:

#include <assert.h>

int g;

void init_g () __attribute__((constructor));

void
init_g ()
{
  assert (g == 0);
  g = 1;
}

int
main ()
{
  return 0;
}

gcc -g t.c -fPIE -pie
./a.out && echo ok
ok

/tmp/build/elf/ld.so --library-path /tmp/build ./a.out
a.out: t.c:10: init_g: Assertion `g == 0' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)


The first call to init_g is here:

Breakpoint 1, init_g () at t.c:10
10        assert (g == 0);
(gdb) bt
#0  init_g () at t.c:10
#1  0x00005555555631ca in call_init (l=<optimized out>, argc=argc@entry=1, argv=argv@entry=0x7fffffffe370, env=env@entry=0x7fffffffe380) at dl-init.c:78
#2  0x00005555555632db in call_init (env=0x7fffffffe380, argv=0x7fffffffe370, argc=1, l=<optimized out>) at dl-init.c:36
#3  _dl_init (main_map=0x555555777190, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe370, env=0x7fffffffe380) at dl-init.c:126
#4  0x0000555555554dba in _dl_start_user () from /tmp/build/elf/ld.so

The second:

(gdb) bt
#0  init_g () at t.c:10
#1  0x00007ffff7dfc82d in __libc_csu_init ()
#2  0x00007ffff7a6804f in __libc_start_main (main=0x7ffff7dfc7bb <main>, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe370, init=0x7ffff7dfc7d0 <__libc_csu_init>, 
    fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffe368) at libc-start.c:244
#3  0x00007ffff7dfc6a9 in _start ()
Comment 1 Paul Pluzhnikov 2014-01-12 03:51:02 UTC
Patch: http://cygwin.com/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00240.html
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commit 798212a01311491d5e14fcda687460b75f8ca286
Author: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 12 15:58:39 2014 -0700

    2014-03-12  Paul Pluzhnikov  <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
    
    	[BZ #16381]
    
    	* elf/Makefile (tests): Add tst-pie2.
            (tests-pie): Add tst-pie2.
    	* elf/tst-pie2.c: New file.
    	* elf/dl-load.c (_dl_map_object_from_fd): Assert correct l_type
    	for ET_EXEC.
    	* elf/rtld.c (map_doit): Load executable as lt_executable.
    	(dl_main): Likewise.

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog     |   12 ++++++++++++
 NEWS          |    6 +++---
 elf/Makefile  |    5 +++--
 elf/dl-load.c |    4 ++--
 elf/rtld.c    |    5 +++--
 5 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
Comment 3 Paul Pluzhnikov 2014-03-13 00:37:01 UTC
Should be fixed now.
Comment 4 Florian Weimer 2021-12-04 15:25:44 UTC
*** Bug 17769 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***