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Re: [PATCH] Remove unnecessary IFUNC dispatch for __memset_chk.
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Alexander Monakov <amonakov at ispras dot ru>
- Cc: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:30:00 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove unnecessary IFUNC dispatch for __memset_chk.
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru> wrote:
>> >> > Earlier you rejected the idea that a resolver can use an externally visible
>> >> > symbol. I just don't see why you say it might be non-deterministic. One
>> >> > can inspect the executable, LD_PRELOAD'ed modules, etc. to see whether they
>> >> > are going to provide an interposing definition of a symbol or not. What is
>> >> > non-deterministic in there?
>> >>
>> >> Due to the way how IFUNC is implemented, dependency on
>> >> external relocation may lead to undefined behavior. We tried
>> >> to support external relocations in IFUNC selector:
>> >>
>> >> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13302
>> >>
>> >> But external relocation on function address returned by IFUNC
>> >> selector isn't supported.
>> >
>> > Isn't this an implementation deficiency that can be solved, for example, by
>> > sorting GLOB_DAT relocation appropriately, rather than a fundamental
>> > restriction that any reasonable implementation of IFUNC would exhibit?
>>
>> We have no control over GLOB_DAT, which can be a relocation
>> against IFUNC symbol and we only know for sure at run-time.
>
> Surely such a counter-argument applies equally to JUMP_SLOT relocations?
> Imagine that 'extern int f(void)' in bug 13302 that you've linked turns
> out to be an IFUNC symbol at runtime.
>
> extern int f(void);
>
> void alt1(void) { }
> void alt2(void) { }
>
> static void (*resolve (void)) (void)
> {
> return f() ? alt1 : alt2;
> }
>
> void fct(void) __attribute__ ((ifunc ("resolve")));
>
The difference here is symbol definition for GLOB_DAT is known
only at run-time while relocations are known at link-time.
--
H.J.