Bug 17726 - [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
Summary: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: glibc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: libc (show other bugs)
Version: 2.21
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: 2.31
Assignee: Adhemerval Zanella
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Reported: 2014-12-17 16:55 UTC by Joseph Myers
Modified: 2019-09-21 16:46 UTC (History)
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Description Joseph Myers 2014-12-17 16:55:05 UTC
On ARM and SPARC, profil_counter is exported from shared libc.  As far as I know, this is a historical ABI accident and so it could be made into a compat symbol (and not exported in static libc at all).
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commit ea41469b7ab2c8e35b1c10054f7076a95f80003a
Author: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 17 18:10:37 2014 +0000

    Fix profil_counter namespace (bug 17725).
    
    On ARM, where profil_counter is not static, it is brought in by
    references to various standard functions, as noted in
    <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-11/msg00890.html>, although
    it is not a standard function itself.  I don't know if this also
    causes test failures on SPARC, although I see no reason for it not to
    do so.
    
    This patch fixes this namespace issue.  profil_counter is renamed to
    __profil_counter and made a weak alias on ARM and SPARC.  Because of
    the uses in profil.c / sprofil.c it seems simplest to make the rename
    globally, including on the other architectures for which
    profil_counter was static and so the change is of no substance.  The
    variant names profil_counter_* used in sprofil.c are also renamed to
    start with __ so that undesired function names do not get exported in
    static libc.
    
    As I noted in bug 17726, profil_counter should probably be a compat
    symbol on ARM and SPARC, so it wouldn't exist at all in static libc
    even as a weak alias.  Since defining a compat symbol still requires
    an internal name as a target of an alias, this patch still seems
    reasonable as an intermediate step towards that goal: it wouldn't be
    possible for the function simply to be static profil_counter on ARM
    and SPARC with profil_counter also being the exported compat symbol
    name, so profil.c / sprofil.c would still need to be prepared to call
    the function under another name (here, __profil_counter).
    
    Tested for x86_64 (testsuite, and that stripped installed shared
    libraries are unchanged by the patch) and ARM (ABI and linknamespace
    tests - this patch reduces the number of linknamespace failures I see
    on ARM from 227 to 5, the residue being math.h failures for fe*
    functions and for j0l/j1n/jnl/y0l/y1l/ynl aliases).
    
    2014-12-17  Joseph Myers  <joseph@codesourcery.com>
    
    	[BZ #17725]
    	* sysdeps/generic/profil-counter.h (profil_counter): Rename to
    	__profil_counter.
    	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/profil-counter.h (profil_counter):
    	Likewise.
    	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/profil-counter.h (profil_counter):
    	Likewise.
    	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/profil-counter.h (profil_counter):
    	Likewise.
    	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/profil-counter.h
    	(profil_counter): Likewise.
    	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/profil-counter.h
    	(profil_counter): Likewise.
    	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/profil-counter.h (profil_counter):
    	Likewise.
    	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/profil-counter.h (profil_counter):
    	Likewise.
    	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/profil-counter.h
    	(profil_counter): Likewise.
    	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/profil-counter.h (profil_counter):
    	Likewise.
    	[!__profil_counter] (profil_counter): Define as weak alias of
    	__profil_counter.
    	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/profil-counter.h
    	(profil_counter): Rename to __profil_counter.
    	[!__profil_counter] (profil_counter): Define as weak alias of
    	__profil_counter.
    	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/profil-counter.h
    	(profil_counter): Rename to __profil_counter.
    	[!__profil_counter] (profil_counter): Define as weak alias of
    	__profil_counter.
    	* sysdeps/posix/profil.c: Update comment referring to
    	profil_counter.
    	(__profil): Use __profil_counter instead of profil_counter.
    	* sysdeps/posix/sprofil.c (profil_counter): Rename to
    	__profil_counter.  Use __profil_counter_ushort and
    	__profil_counter_uint in definitions.
    	(__sprofil): Use __profil_counter_uint and __profil_counter_ushort
    	instead of profil_counter_uint and profil_counter_ushort.

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog                                          |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++
 NEWS                                               |    2 +-
 sysdeps/generic/profil-counter.h                   |    2 +-
 sysdeps/posix/profil.c                             |    4 +-
 sysdeps/posix/sprofil.c                            |   12 +++---
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/profil-counter.h       |    5 ++-
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/profil-counter.h      |    2 +-
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/profil-counter.h      |    2 +-
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/profil-counter.h      |    2 +-
 .../unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/profil-counter.h  |    2 +-
 .../unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/profil-counter.h  |    2 +-
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/profil-counter.h        |    2 +-
 .../unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/profil-counter.h |    5 ++-
 .../unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/profil-counter.h |    5 ++-
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/profil-counter.h      |    2 +-
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/profil-counter.h    |    2 +-
 16 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
Comment 2 Adhemerval Zanella 2019-09-21 16:46:31 UTC
Fixed by 08d57105bbcbb4f950cd7cdf881a50977e44b8c6.