[PATCH] arm: Remove unused ldr _dl_start_user

Adhemerval Zanella Netto adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Mon Feb 5 18:09:00 GMT 2024



On 05/02/24 14:13, Sam James wrote:
> 
> Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> writes:
> 
>> The commit 49d877a80b29d3002887b084eec6676d9f5fec18 (arm: Remove
>> _dl_skip_args usage) removed the _SKIP_ARGS literal, which was
>> previously loader to r4 on loader _start.  However, the cleanup did not
>> remove the following 'ldr r4, [sl, r4]' on _dl_start_user, used to check
>> to skip the arguments after ld self-relocations.
>>
>> In my testing, the kernel initially set r4 to 0, which makes the
>> ldr instruction just read the _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_.  However, since r4
>> is a caller-saved register; a different runtime might not zero
>> initialize it and thus trigger an invalid memory access.
> 
> Tag the bug?
> 
> Also, I feel like the title perhaps makes the change sound more cosmetic
> than it is.

Right, I will change to 'arm: Remove wrong ldr _dl_start_user (BZ 31339)'

> 
>>
>> Checked on arm-linux-gnu.
>>
>> Reported-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
>> ---
>>  sysdeps/arm/dl-machine.h | 1 -
>>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/sysdeps/arm/dl-machine.h b/sysdeps/arm/dl-machine.h
>> index b857bbc868..dd1a0f6b6e 100644
>> --- a/sysdeps/arm/dl-machine.h
>> +++ b/sysdeps/arm/dl-machine.h
>> @@ -139,7 +139,6 @@ _start:\n\
>>  _dl_start_user:\n\
>>  	adr	r6, .L_GET_GOT\n\
>>  	add	sl, sl, r6\n\
>> -	ldr	r4, [sl, r4]\n\
>>  	@ save the entry point in another register\n\
>>  	mov	r6, r0\n\
>>  	@ get the original arg count\n\
> 


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