If we don't set FP and LR to 0, the Kernel might not stop generating
backtraces when it reaches `_start`'s stack frame, and might continue by
reading garbage memory instead. This leads to a kernel panic, as SafeMem
access faults aren't handled properly in the AArch64 kernel yet.
We might want to ensure that the kernel zeroes out all registers when a
new process is created.
We have a new, improved string type coming up in AK (OOM aware, no null
state), and while it's going to use UTF-8, the name UTF8String is a
mouthful - so let's free up the String name by renaming the existing
class.
Making the old one have an annoying name will hopefully also help with
quick adoption :^)
We have had these for quite a while, but we didn't compile them, and
used GCC's version instead. Clang does not come with these, so we have
to provide our own implementation.
Our implementation follows what `musl` and `FreeBSD` do, so this should
work fine, even if documentation can hardly be found for them.
The System V ABI for both x86 and x86_64 requires that the stack pointer
is 16-byte aligned on entry. Previously we did not align the stack
pointer properly.
As far as "main" was concerned the stack alignment was correct even
without this patch due to how the C++ _start function and the kernel
interacted, i.e. the kernel misaligned the stack as far as the ABI
was concerned but that misalignment (read: it was properly aligned for
a regular function call - but misaligned in terms of what the ABI
dictates) was actually expected by our _start function.
Using LibELF to do the initial relocations doesn't work when building
SerenityOS with Clang. We seem to be accessing a global symbol that
hasn't been relocated yet somewhere along the path to
ELF::DynamicObject::create().
This links the dynamic linker against libgcc.a instead of having
our own copy of the math functions.
For now we need to specify -fbuilding-libgcc as a hack to work
around a bug with the -nodefaultlibs flag. Once everyone is on
the latest toolchain version this can be removed.
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
(...and ASSERT_NOT_REACHED => VERIFY_NOT_REACHED)
Since all of these checks are done in release builds as well,
let's rename them to VERIFY to prevent confusion, as everyone is
used to assertions being compiled out in release.
We can introduce a new ASSERT macro that is specifically for debug
checks, but I'm doing this wholesale conversion first since we've
accumulated thousands of these already, and it's not immediately
obvious which ones are suitable for ASSERT.
AT_SECURE is set in the auxiliary vector when we execute setuid/setgid
programs.
In those cases, we do not want to read environment variables that
influence the logic of the dynamic loader, as they can be controlled
by the user.
Commit a3a9016701 removed the PT_INTERP header
from Loader.so which cleaned up some kernel code in execve. Unfortunately
it prevents Loader.so from being run as an executable
Loader.so now just performs the initial self relocations and static
LibC initialisation before handing over to ELF::DynamicLinker::linker_main
to handle the rest of the process.
As a trade-off, ELF::DynamicLinker needs to be explicitly excluded from
Lagom unless we really want to try writing a cross platform dynamic loader
Loader.so is an actual executable, as well as the interpreter for dynamic
libraries. Currently launching Loader.so as a standalone executable results
in an obsucre crash as it tries to load itself over itself.
Now we at least print a helpful message saying that you're doing the wrong
thing and exit gracefully. In future we may wish to allow users to specify
additional options to learn more about what's going on during dynamic
linking, such as ld-linux.so.2 on Linux.
This commit gets rid of ELF::Loader entirely since its very ambiguous
purpose was actually to load executables for the kernel, and that is
now handled by the kernel itself.
This patch includes some drive-by cleanup in LibDebug and CrashDaemon
enabled by the fact that we no longer need to keep the ref-counted
ELF::Loader around.
Problem:
- `(void)` simply casts the expression to void. This is understood to
indicate that it is ignored, but this is really a compiler trick to
get the compiler to not generate a warning.
Solution:
- Use the `[[maybe_unused]]` attribute to indicate the value is unused.
Note:
- Functions taking a `(void)` argument list have also been changed to
`()` because this is not needed and shows up in the same grep
command.
When loading dynamic objects, the emulator loads the interpreter,
generates an auxiliary vector and starts executing the loader.
Additionally, this commits also makes the MallocTracer and backtrace
symbolication work for dynamically loaded programs.
The dynamic loader exists as /usr/lib/Loader.so and is loaded by the
kernel when ET_DYN programs are executed.
The dynamic loader is responsible for loading the dependencies of the
main program, allocating TLS storage, preparing all loaded objects for
execution and finally jumping to the entry of the main program.
