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libs/libc/elf: Load the libraries a module names in DT_NEEDED.
A module that names a shared library in DT_NEEDED now gets it loaded and
its imports bound against it, rather than being refused.

libelf_insert() does the loading, which is what dlopen() calls anyway: the
library lands in the module registry like anything else, its exports come
back through libelf_getsymbol() -- the same call dlsym() uses -- and a
library named by two modules is loaded once.  A bare name is looked for
along LD_LIBRARY_PATH, where dlopen() looks for it.  Undefined symbols
resolve against the globally registered symbols first, then the modules
this one depends on, then the table exec() supplied.  Nothing here calls
into dlfcn, because this loader is also the kernel's module loader, which
has none.

Each library becomes one of the module's dependencies[], and the dependency
holds it in place of the reference libelf_insert() took.  So a library
loaded only for DT_NEEDED is kept by the modules that depend on it, and
libelf_undepend() unloads it with the last of them; one that dlopen() or
insmod also opened stays until that reference goes too.
CONFIG_LIBC_ELF_MAXDEPEND bounds how many libraries a module may name,
which is what it already meant.

Six things had to be fixed to make it work, none of which a build shows.

reldata was a file-scope global.  Loading a library from inside
libelf_relocatedyn() makes that function reentrant, so the nested load
overwrote the outer one's relocation offsets and the module resumed binding
with the library's DT_REL.  It is now per call.

A cross-object call needs the callee's data base, not the caller's.  A
symbol resolved from an FDPIC library comes back as a descriptor, and
R_ARM_FUNCDESC_VALUE was treating it as a code address and pairing it with
the importing module's GOT.  It now copies both words, so the library runs
with its own.

An object with no imports has no PLT and so no DT_PLTGOT, but it still has
a GOT and still has to be entered with it.  Without the fallback its
descriptors carried a data base of zero and the library read its globals
through a null pointer.

R_ARM_FUNCDESC, a pointer to a descriptor, wrapped a library's descriptor
in a second one.  It now stores the library's descriptor as it is.

The flag that says a resolved value is a descriptor was set only for an
import and never cleared, so the next relocation against a symbol of the
module itself took that symbol for a descriptor too.  It is cleared there.

libelf_symname() was static, and reading a DT_NEEDED name needs it.

A module with DT_NEEDED is refused where CONFIG_LIBC_ELF_MAXDEPEND is zero,
since that is where the dependency logic is compiled out.

A DT_NEEDED library is one shared instance, its data included, because the
loader returns the object already in the registry.  A module started with
exec() is different: that path loads the module afresh each time, so two
running instances have separate data while sharing one copy of the text.

Built for mps3-an547:picostest with CONFIG_FDPIC both ways.  Run on
mps2-an500:xipfs under QEMU: fdpicxip solib loads libcounter.so by name out
of DT_NEEDED, two instances share one pinned copy of its text, and the
library is unloaded, and its pin given back, when the second one exits.  A
library also opened with dlopen() stays loaded after its DT_NEEDED user
exits, and dlclose() unloads it.

With CONFIG_ARCH_ADDRENV the program runs in its own address space, which
a library libelf_insert() loads cannot reach, so DT_NEEDED is refused
there as before.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Marco Casaroli <marco.casaroli@gmail.com>
2026-10-06 17:48:49 -03:00
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arm include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
armv6-m include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
armv7-a arm: memcpy: add NEON paths for aligned copies 2026-05-09 09:46:43 +08:00
armv7-m libs/libc/elf: Load the libraries a module names in DT_NEEDED. 2026-10-06 17:48:49 -03:00
armv7-r arm: memcpy: add NEON paths for aligned copies 2026-05-09 09:46:43 +08:00
armv8-m libs/libc/elf: Load the libraries a module names in DT_NEEDED. 2026-10-06 17:48:49 -03:00
armv8-r arm: memcpy: add NEON paths for aligned copies 2026-05-09 09:46:43 +08:00
aeabi_memclr.c
aeabi_memclr4.c
aeabi_memclr8.c
aeabi_memcpy.c
aeabi_memcpy4.c
aeabi_memcpy8.c
aeabi_memmove.c
aeabi_memmove4.c
aeabi_memmove8.c
aeabi_memset.c
aeabi_memset4.c
aeabi_memset8.c
arch_atexit.c
arch_crc32.c
arch_dummy.c
arch_mcount.S libs/libc/machine/arm: add Cortex-M0/M23 support to arch_mcount 2026-02-04 03:03:45 +08:00
arch_setjmp.S
arch_unwind_find_exidx.c
CMakeLists.txt
Kconfig
Make.defs
tc32_setjmp.S