dlopen: Rework handling of pending NODELETE status
Commit a2e8aa0d ("Block signals during the initial part of dlopen") was deemed necessary because of read-modify-write operations like the one in add_dependency in elf/dl-lookup.c. In the old code, we check for any kind of NODELETE status and bail out: /* Redo the NODELETE check, as when dl_load_lock wasn't held yet this could have changed. */ if (map->l_nodelete != link_map_nodelete_inactive) goto out; And then set pending status (during relocation): if (flags & DL_LOOKUP_FOR_RELOCATE) map->l_nodelete = link_map_nodelete_pending; else map->l_nodelete = link_map_nodelete_active; If a signal arrives during relocation and the signal handler, through lazy binding, adds a global scope dependency on the same map, it will set map->l_nodelete to link_map_nodelete_active. This will be overwritten with link_map_nodelete_pending by the dlopen relocation code. To avoid such problems in relation to the l_nodelete member, this commit introduces two flags for active NODELETE status (irrevocable) and pending NODELETE status (revocable until activate_nodelete is invoked). As a result, NODELETE processing in dlopen does not introduce further reasons why lazy binding from signal handlers is unsafe during dlopen, and a subsequent commit can remove signal blocking from dlopen. This does not address pre-existing issues (unrelated to the NODELETE changes) which make lazy binding in a signal handler during dlopen unsafe, such as the use of malloc in both cases. Reviewed-by:Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> Reviewed-by:
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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