]> sourceware.org Git - glibc.git/blob - elf/link.h
Thu Jun 13 00:02:25 1996 Roland McGrath <roland@delasyd.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
[glibc.git] / elf / link.h
1 /* Run-time dynamic linker data structures for loaded ELF shared objects.
2 Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
4
5 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
7 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
8 License, or (at your option) any later version.
9
10 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Library General Public License for more details.
14
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
16 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
17 not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
18 Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
19
20 #ifndef _LINK_H
21 #define _LINK_H 1
22
23 #define __need_size_t
24 #include <stddef.h>
25
26 #include <elf.h>
27
28 /* We use this macro to refer to ELF types independent of the native wordsize.
29 `ElfW(TYPE)' is used in place of `Elf32_TYPE' or `Elf64_TYPE'. */
30 #define ElfW(type) _ElfW (Elf, __ELF_NATIVE_CLASS, type)
31 #define ELFW(type) _ElfW (ELF, __ELF_NATIVE_CLASS, type)
32 #define _ElfW(e,w,t) _ElfW_1 (e, w, _##t)
33 #define _ElfW_1(e,w,t) e##w##t
34 #include <elfclass.h> /* Defines __ELF_NATIVE_CLASS. */
35
36 /* Rendezvous structure used by the run-time dynamic linker to communicate
37 details of shared object loading to the debugger. If the executable's
38 dynamic section has a DT_DEBUG element, the run-time linker sets that
39 element's value to the address where this structure can be found. */
40
41 struct r_debug
42 {
43 int r_version; /* Version number for this protocol. */
44
45 struct link_map *r_map; /* Head of the chain of loaded objects. */
46
47 /* This is the address of a function internal to the run-time linker,
48 that will always be called when the linker begins to map in a
49 library or unmap it, and again when the mapping change is complete.
50 The debugger can set a breakpoint at this address if it wants to
51 notice shared object mapping changes. */
52 ElfW(Addr) r_brk;
53 enum
54 {
55 /* This state value describes the mapping change taking place when
56 the `r_brk' address is called. */
57 RT_CONSISTENT, /* Mapping change is complete. */
58 RT_ADD, /* Beginning to add a new object. */
59 RT_DELETE, /* Beginning to remove an object mapping. */
60 } r_state;
61
62 ElfW(Addr) r_ldbase; /* Base address the linker is loaded at. */
63 };
64
65 /* This is the instance of that structure used by the dynamic linker. */
66 extern struct r_debug _r_debug;
67
68 /* This symbol refers to the "dynamic structure" in the `.dynamic' section
69 of whatever module refers to `_DYNAMIC'. So, to find its own
70 `struct r_debug', a program could do:
71 for (dyn = _DYNAMIC; dyn->d_tag != DT_NULL)
72 if (dyn->d_tag == DT_DEBUG) r_debug = (struct r_debug) dyn->d_un.d_ptr;
73 */
74
75 extern ElfW(Dyn) _DYNAMIC[];
76
77
78 /* Structure describing a loaded shared object. The `l_next' and `l_prev'
79 members form a chain of all the shared objects loaded at startup.
80
81 These data structures exist in space used by the run-time dynamic linker;
82 modifying them may have disastrous results. */
83
84 struct link_map
85 {
86 /* These first few members are part of the protocol with the debugger.
87 This is the same format used in SVR4. */
88
89 ElfW(Addr) l_addr; /* Base address shared object is loaded at. */
90 char *l_name; /* Absolute file name object was found in. */
91 ElfW(Dyn) *l_ld; /* Dynamic section of the shared object. */
92 struct link_map *l_next, *l_prev; /* Chain of loaded objects. */
93
94 /* All following members are internal to the dynamic linker.
95 They may change without notice. */
96
97 const char *l_libname; /* Name requested (before search). */
98 /* Indexed pointers to dynamic section.
99 [0,DT_NUM) are indexed by the processor-independent tags.
100 [DT_NUM,DT_NUM+DT_PROCNUM] are indexed by the tag minus DT_LOPROC. */
101 ElfW(Dyn) *l_info[DT_NUM + DT_PROCNUM];
102 const ElfW(Phdr) *l_phdr; /* Pointer to program header table in core. */
103 ElfW(Addr) l_entry; /* Entry point location. */
104 ElfW(Half) l_phnum; /* Number of program header entries. */
105
106 /* Array of DT_NEEDED dependencies and their dependencies, in
107 dependency order for symbol lookup. This is null before the
108 dependencies have been loaded. */
109 struct link_map **l_searchlist;
110 unsigned int l_nsearchlist;
111
112 /* Dependent object that first caused this object to be loaded. */
113 struct link_map *l_loader;
114
115 /* Symbol hash table. */
116 ElfW(Symndx) l_nbuckets;
117 const ElfW(Symndx) *l_buckets, *l_chain;
118
119 unsigned int l_opencount; /* Reference count for dlopen/dlclose. */
120 enum /* Where this object came from. */
121 {
122 lt_executable, /* The main executable program. */
123 lt_library, /* Library needed by main executable. */
124 lt_loaded, /* Extra run-time loaded shared object. */
125 } l_type:2;
126 unsigned int l_relocated:1; /* Nonzero if object's relocations done. */
127 unsigned int l_init_called:1; /* Nonzero if DT_INIT function called. */
128 unsigned int l_init_running:1; /* Nonzero while DT_INIT function runs. */
129 unsigned int l_global:1; /* Nonzero if object in _dl_global_scope. */
130 unsigned int l_reserved:2; /* Reserved for internal use. */
131 };
132 \f
133 /* Internal functions of the run-time dynamic linker.
134 These can be accessed if you link again the dynamic linker
135 as a shared library, as in `-lld' or `/lib/ld.so' explicitly;
136 but are not normally of interest to user programs.
137
138 The `-ldl' library functions in <dlfcn.h> provide a simple
139 user interface to run-time dynamic linking. */
140
141
142 /* Cached value of `getpagesize ()'. */
143 extern size_t _dl_pagesize;
144
145 /* File descriptor referring to the zero-fill device. */
146 extern int _dl_zerofd;
147
148 /* OS-dependent function to open the zero-fill device. */
149 extern int _dl_sysdep_open_zero_fill (void); /* dl-sysdep.c */
150
151 /* OS-dependent function to write a message on the standard output.
152 All arguments are `const char *'; args until a null pointer
153 are concatenated to form the message to print. */
154 extern void _dl_sysdep_message (const char *string, ...);
155
156 /* OS-dependent function to give a fatal error message and exit
157 when the dynamic linker fails before the program is fully linked.
158 All arguments are `const char *'; args until a null pointer
159 are concatenated to form the message to print. */
160 extern void _dl_sysdep_fatal (const char *string, ...)
161 __attribute__ ((__noreturn__));
162
163 /* Nonzero if the program should be "secure" (i.e. it's setuid or somesuch).
164 This tells the dynamic linker to ignore environment variables. */
165 extern int _dl_secure;
166
167 /* This function is called by all the internal dynamic linker functions
168 when they encounter an error. ERRCODE is either an `errno' code or
169 zero; OBJECT is the name of the problematical shared object, or null if
170 it is a general problem; ERRSTRING is a string describing the specific
171 problem. */
172
173 extern void _dl_signal_error (int errcode,
174 const char *object,
175 const char *errstring)
176 __attribute__ ((__noreturn__));
177
178 /* Call OPERATE, catching errors from `dl_signal_error'. If there is no
179 error, *ERRSTRING is set to null. If there is an error, *ERRSTRING and
180 *OBJECT are set to the strings passed to _dl_signal_error, and the error
181 code passed is the return value. */
182 extern int _dl_catch_error (const char **errstring,
183 const char **object,
184 void (*operate) (void));
185
186
187 /* Helper function for <dlfcn.h> functions. Runs the OPERATE function via
188 _dl_catch_error. Returns zero for success, nonzero for failure; and
189 arranges for `dlerror' to return the error details. */
190 extern int _dlerror_run (void (*operate) (void));
191
192
193 /* Open the shared object NAME and map in its segments.
194 LOADER's DT_RPATH is used in searching for NAME.
195 If the object is already opened, returns its existing map. */
196 extern struct link_map *_dl_map_object (struct link_map *loader,
197 const char *name, int type);
198
199 /* Call _dl_map_object on the dependencies of MAP, and
200 set up MAP->l_searchlist. */
201 extern void _dl_map_object_deps (struct link_map *map);
202
203 /* Cache the locations of MAP's hash table. */
204 extern void _dl_setup_hash (struct link_map *map);
205
206
207 /* Open the shared object NAME, relocate it, and run its initializer if it
208 hasn't already been run. LOADER's DT_RPATH is used in searching for
209 NAME. MODE is as for `dlopen' (see <dlfcn.h>). If the object is
210 already opened, returns its existing map. */
211 extern struct link_map *_dl_open (struct link_map *loader,
212 const char *name, int mode);
213
214 /* Close an object previously opened by _dl_open. */
215 extern void _dl_close (struct link_map *map);
216
217
218 /* Search loaded objects' symbol tables for a definition of the symbol
219 referred to by UNDEF. *SYM is the symbol table entry containing the
220 reference; it is replaced with the defining symbol, and the base load
221 address of the defining object is returned. SYMBOL_SCOPE is a
222 null-terminated list of object scopes to search; each object's
223 l_searchlist (i.e. the segment of the dependency tree starting at that
224 object) is searched in turn. REFERENCE_NAME should name the object
225 containing the reference; it is used in error messages. RELOC_ADDR is
226 the address being fixed up and the chosen symbol cannot be one with this
227 value. If NOPLT is nonzero, then the reference must not be resolved to
228 a PLT entry. */
229 extern ElfW(Addr) _dl_lookup_symbol (const char *undef,
230 const ElfW(Sym) **sym,
231 struct link_map *symbol_scope[],
232 const char *reference_name,
233 ElfW(Addr) reloc_addr,
234 int noplt);
235
236 /* Look up symbol NAME in MAP's scope and return its run-time address. */
237 extern ElfW(Addr) _dl_symbol_value (struct link_map *map, const char *name);
238
239
240 /* Structure describing the dynamic linker itself. */
241 extern struct link_map _dl_rtld_map;
242
243 /* The list of objects currently loaded is the third element of the
244 `_dl_default_scope' array, and the fourth element is always null.
245 This leaves two slots before it that are used when resolving
246 DT_SYMBOLIC objects' references one after it for normal references
247 (see below). */
248 #define _dl_loaded (_dl_default_scope[2])
249 extern struct link_map *_dl_default_scope[5];
250
251 /* Null-terminated list of objects in the dynamic `global scope'. The
252 list starts at [2]; i.e. &_dl_global_scope[2] is the argument
253 passed to _dl_lookup_symbol to search the global scope. To search
254 a specific object and its dependencies in preference to the global
255 scope, fill in the [1] slot and pass its address; for two specific
256 object scopes, fill [0] and [1]. The list is double-terminated; to
257 search the global scope and then a specific object and its
258 dependencies, set *_dl_global_scope_end. This variable initially
259 points to _dl_default_scope, and _dl_loaded is always kept in [2]
260 of this list. A new list is malloc'd when new objects are loaded
261 with RTLD_GLOBAL. */
262 extern struct link_map **_dl_global_scope, **_dl_global_scope_end;
263 extern size_t _dl_global_scope_alloc; /* Number of slots malloc'd. */
264
265 /* Hack _dl_global_scope[0] and [1] as necessary, and return a pointer into
266 _dl_global_scope that should be passed to _dl_lookup_symbol for symbol
267 references made in the object MAP's relocations. */
268 extern struct link_map **_dl_object_relocation_scope (struct link_map *map);
269
270
271 /* Allocate a `struct link_map' for a new object being loaded,
272 and enter it into the _dl_loaded list. */
273 extern struct link_map *_dl_new_object (char *realname, const char *libname,
274 int type);
275
276 /* Relocate the given object (if it hasn't already been).
277 SCOPE is passed to _dl_lookup_symbol in symbol lookups.
278 If LAZY is nonzero, don't relocate its PLT. */
279 extern void _dl_relocate_object (struct link_map *map,
280 struct link_map *scope[],
281 int lazy);
282
283 /* Return the address of the next initializer function for MAP or one of
284 its dependencies that has not yet been run. When there are no more
285 initializers to be run, this returns zero. The functions are returned
286 in the order they should be called. */
287 extern ElfW(Addr) _dl_init_next (struct link_map *map);
288
289 /* Call the finalizer functions of all shared objects whose
290 initializer functions have completed. */
291 extern void _dl_fini (void);
292
293 /* The dynamic linker calls this function before and having changing
294 any shared object mappings. The `r_state' member of `struct r_debug'
295 says what change is taking place. This function's address is
296 the value of the `r_brk' member. */
297 extern void _dl_debug_state (void);
298
299 /* Initialize `struct r_debug' if it has not already been done. The
300 argument is the run-time load address of the dynamic linker, to be put
301 in the `r_ldbase' member. Returns the address of the structure. */
302 extern struct r_debug *_dl_debug_initialize (ElfW(Addr) ldbase);
303
304
305 #endif /* link.h */
This page took 0.052143 seconds and 5 git commands to generate.