nuttx/include
Marco Casaroli 1aa32bbc07 libs/libc/elf: Place an FDPIC object's segments independently.
An ET_DYN object is loaded into one allocation with its data behind its
text, because its data references sit at a fixed distance from the code
that makes them.  An FDPIC object does not work that way: it reaches its
data through a base register, so the two segments can be placed wherever
suits, and the point of the format is that the read-only one is left on
the media and executed there while only the writable one is copied.  One
copy of the text then serves every instance.

So libelf_load() grows a second case.  The object announces itself in the
OS/ABI byte, which is noted once in libelf_loadhdrs() rather than
re-derived; e_flags cannot be used for this, as an FDPIC object's are an
unremarkable EABI version and testing them would reject every valid
module.  Text is taken from the media address plus the segment's own file
offset -- the same arithmetic the ET_REL path already does with
sh_offset -- and libelf_loadfile() does not read it.  If the filesystem
cannot show its media, the loader copies the text to RAM instead.  The
module then loses the shared text and the flash saving, but it runs.

Obtaining that address needs two mechanisms, and they are not
interchangeable.  A compacting filesystem can move a file's blocks, so it
hands out an address only with a pin that holds them still and expects
the pin back; xipfs is the one in tree.  A filesystem whose layout never
changes has nothing to hold and answers FIOC_XIPBASE with a bare address;
romfs and tmpfs are those.  libelf_xipacquire() asks for the pin first,
because a filesystem that needs one is not safe without it, and
libelf_unload() gives it back.  The loader asks for a pin only if it can
hold one, or the pin would stay for ever.

The pin is thus not specific to FDPIC.  Any module that executes in place
from a compacting filesystem takes one, and gives it back at unload.

mmap() is not used, though both filesystems implement it.  The mapping
would be recorded against whichever task called the loader, while the
release happens when the module's own task exits, which is a different
group -- so the pin would outlive the module and the extent would never
become movable again.

Unloading has to change with placement: the existing path frees only
textalloc because ET_DYN had a single allocation, which would leak an
FDPIC object's data and free media the filesystem only lent us.

Nothing here runs for a non-FDPIC object; every branch is behind the flag
and the single-allocation path is untouched.  Built and booted
mps3-an547:picostest, which is CONFIG_ELF with CONFIG_PIC, with no change
in behaviour.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Casaroli <marco.casaroli@gmail.com>
2026-09-08 16:31:16 -03:00
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android
arpa
crypto crypto: add CRYPTO_AES_CTR_SSH variant (128-bit big-endian counter) 2026-07-16 15:42:10 +08:00
cxx include/cxx/{cstdlib,cmath}: Provide std::abs overloads 2026-08-24 12:04:30 +08:00
net arch/arm/src/imxrt: Unify FlexCAN TX work and add SIOCGCANERRORS. 2026-09-01 17:40:47 +08:00
netinet
netpacket
nuttx libs/libc/elf: Place an FDPIC object's segments independently. 2026-09-08 16:31:16 -03:00
ssp
sys fs: rename PSEUDOFS_SOFTLINKS to FS_LINKS 2026-08-27 01:12:33 +08:00
.gitignore ci: add stdbit.h test 2026-06-29 14:44:17 +02:00
aio.h
alloca.h
assert.h
byteswap.h
ctype.h
debug.h style: fix checkpatch issues after debug.h move 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
dirent.h fs/dirent: add d_ino member to struct dirent 2026-06-26 10:45:33 -04:00
dlfcn.h
dsp.h libs/libdsp: Add Matrix operations 2026-07-11 14:55:59 -03:00
dspb16.h
elf.h libs/libc/elf: Place an FDPIC object's segments independently. 2026-09-08 16:31:16 -03:00
elf32.h
elf64.h
endian.h
err.h
errno.h include/errno.h: skip set_errno in interrupt context 2026-05-03 17:23:40 -03:00
execinfo.h
fcntl.h !include/fcntl.h: align open flags with Linux values 2026-06-30 13:43:44 +08:00
fixedmath.h !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
fnmatch.h
ftw.h
gcov.h
getopt.h
glob.h
grp.h libc/grp: add getgrouplist() 2026-06-23 23:09:22 +08:00
hex2bin.h
iconv.h
ifaddrs.h
imx_container.h
inttypes.h !sched/clock: remove CONFIG_SYSTEM_TIME64 and always use 64-bit time 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
iso646.h
langinfo.h
libgen.h
libintl.h
limits.h libc/limits: increase LINK_MAX to 128 and fix pathconf 2026-08-28 23:07:24 +08:00
locale.h
lzf.h lzf: prevent lzf header struct optimization 2026-02-13 11:58:50 +01:00
malloc.h
mqueue.h
netdb.h
nl_types.h
nxflat.h !arch/arm: Use r9 as the PIC base register. 2026-08-06 01:38:23 +08:00
obstack.h
poll.h
pthread.h include/pthread : initialize wait_count in PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER 2026-06-16 19:12:30 -03:00
pty.h
pwd.h
regex.h
resolv.h
sched.h
search.h
semaphore.h
shadow.h
signal.h sched/timer: Fix MISRA Rule 10.4 2026-01-22 22:14:00 +08:00
spawn.h sched/spawn: Fix MISRA C 2012 Rule 10.4 violations 2026-02-02 20:39:36 +08:00
stdbool.h
stddef.h !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
stdint.h
stdio.h
stdlib.h fs/binfmt: close symlink TOCTOU and harden setuid/setgid exec hygiene 2026-08-01 15:32:03 -03:00
stdnoreturn.h
string.h include/string.h: mark memset and memcpy as used_code 2026-02-12 13:19:06 -05:00
strings.h !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
syscall.h
syslog.h
termios.h
threads.h
time.h
ulimit.h
unistd.h sched: add supplementary group IDs (setgroups/getgroups/initgroups) 2026-08-12 16:06:03 -03:00
utime.h
uuid.h
wait.h
wchar.h
wctype.h