The tree is indexed by section number. This speeds up elf_getscn()
and its callers, which previously had to traverse a linked list. In
particular, since .shstrtab is often the last section in a file,
elf_strptr() would have to traverse the entire list.
PR: 234949
Reviewed by: emaste
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20443
Highlights:
- Make sure that only TLS sections are sorted into TLS segment.
- Fixed multiple errors in "Section to Segment mapping".
- Man page updates
- ar improvements
- elfcopy: avoid filter_reloc uninitialized variable for rela
- elfcopy: avoid stripping relocations from static binaries
- readelf: avoid printing directory in front of absolute path
- readelf: add NT_FREEBSD_FEATURE_CTL FreeBSD note type
- test improvements
NOTES:
Some of these changes originated in FreeBSD and simply reduce diffs
between contrib and vendor.
ELF Tool Chain ar is not (currently) used in FreeBSD, and there are
improvements in both FreeBSD and ELF Tool Chain ar that are not in
the other.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MIPS64 does not store the 'r_info' field of a relocation table entry as
a 64-bit value consisting of a 32-bit symbol index in the high 32 bits
and a 32-bit type in the low 32 bits as on other architectures. Instead,
the 64-bit 'r_info' field is really a 32-bit symbol index followed by four
individual byte type fields. For big-endian MIPS64, treating this as a
64-bit integer happens to be compatible with the layout expected by other
architectures (symbol index in upper 32-bits of resulting "native" 64-bit
integer). However, for little-endian MIPS64 the parsed 64-bit integer
contains the symbol index in the low 32 bits and the 4 individual byte
type fields in the upper 32-bits (but as if the upper 32-bits were
byte-swapped).
To cope, add two helper routines in gelf_getrel.c to translate between the
correct native 'r_info' value and the value obtained after the normal
byte-swap translation. Use these routines in gelf_getrel(), gelf_getrela(),
gelf_update_rel(), and gelf_update_rela(). This fixes 'readelf -r' on
little-endian MIPS64 objects which was previously decoding incorrect
relocations as well as 'objcopy: invalid symbox index' warnings from
objcopy when extracting debug symbols from kernel modules.
Even with this fixed, objcopy was still crashing when trying to extract
debug symbols from little-endian MIPS64 modules. The workaround in
gelf_*rel*() depends on the current ELF object having a valid ELF header
so that the 'e_machine' field can be compared against EM_MIPS. objcopy
was parsing the relocation entries to possibly rewrite the 'r_info' fields
in the update_relocs() function before writing the initial ELF header to
the destination object file. Move the initial write of the ELF header
earlier before copy_contents() so that update_relocs() uses the correct
symbol index values.
Note that this change should really go upstream. The binutils readelf
source has a similar hack for MIPS64EL though I implemented this version
from scratch using the MIPS64 ABI PDF as a reference.
Discussed with: jkoshy
Reviewed by: emaste, imp
Approved by: re (gjb, kib)
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15734
