GNU ld does not allow `.foo : { (*foo) }`, but we may recognize it as three
input section descriptions: file "(" with any section name, file "*foo" with
any section name, file ")" with any section name. Disallow the error-prone usage.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125523
Placing a non-SHT_NOBITS input section in an output section specified with
(NOLOAD) is fishy but used by some projects. D118840 changed the output type to
SHT_PROGBITS, but using the specified type seems to make more sense and improve
GNU ld compatibility: `(NOLOAD)` seems to change the output section type
regardless of input.
I think we should keep the current type mismatch warning as it does indicate an
error-prone usage.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125074
We currently hard code RELRO sections. When a custom section is between
DATA_SEGMENT_ALIGN and DATA_SEGMENT_RELRO_END, we may report a spurious
`error: section: ... is not contiguous with other relro sections`. GNU ld
makes such sections RELRO.
glibc recently switched to default --with-default-link=no. This configuration
places `__libc_atexit` and others between DATA_SEGMENT_ALIGN and
DATA_SEGMENT_RELRO_END. This patch allows such a ld.bfd --verbose
linker script to be fed into lld.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D124656
Linux kernel arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S discards .dynsym . D123985 triggers
a spurious assertion failure. Detect the case with
`!mainPart->dynSymTab->getParent()`.
Making a (NOLOAD) section SHT_PROGBITS is fishy (the user may expect all-zero
content, but the linker does not check that), but some projects (e.g. Linux
kernel https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1597) traditionally rely
on the behavior. Issue a warning to not break them.
The current output section type allows to set the ELF section type to
SHT_PROGBITS or SHT_NOLOAD. This patch allows an arbitrary section value
to be specified. Some common SHT_* literal names are supported as well.
```
SECTIONS {
note (TYPE=SHT_NOTE) : { BYTE(8) *(note) }
init_array ( TYPE=14 ) : { QUAD(14) }
fini_array (TYPE = SHT_FINI_ARRAY) : { QUAD(15) }
}
```
When `sh_type` is specified, it is an error if an input section has a different type.
Our syntax is compatible with GNU ld 2.39 (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28841).
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118840
See the updated insert-before.test for the effects: many synthetic
sections are SHF_ALLOC|SHF_WRITE. If they are discarded, we don't want
to propagate their flags to subsequent output section descriptions.
`getFirstInputSection(sec) == nullptr` can technically be merged into
`isDiscardable` but I'd like to postpone that as not sharing code may give more
refactoring opportunity.
Depends on D118529.
Reviewed By: peter.smith, bluca
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118530
adjustSectionsBeforeSorting updates some output section attributes
(alignment/flags) and removes discardable empty sections. When it is called,
INSERT commands have not been processed. Therefore the flags propagation rule
may not affect output sections defined in an INSERT command properly.
Fix this by moving processInsertCommands before adjustSectionsBeforeSorting.
adjustSectionsBeforeSorting is somewhat misnamed. The order between it and
sortInputSections does not matter. With the pass shuffle, the name of
adjustSectionsBeforeSorting becomes wrong. Therefore rename it. The new
name is not set into stone. The function mixes several tasks and the
code may be refactored in a way that we may give them more meaningful
names.
With this patch, I think the behavior of attribute propagation becomes more
reasonable. In particular, in the absence of non-INSERT SECTIONS,
inserting a section after a SHF_ALLOC one will give us a SHF_ALLOC section,
not a non-SHF_ALLOC one (see linkerscript/insert-after.test).
Reviewed By: peter.smith, bluca
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118529
db08df0570 does not work because part.relrDyn is
a unique_ptr and `reset` destroys the object which may still be referenced.
This commit uses the D114180 approach. Also improve the test to check that there
is no R_X86_64_RELATIVE.
to prepare for D116838, otherwise for linkerscript/discard-section-err.s,
there will be a null pointer dereference in `part.relrDyn->getParent()->size`
in `finalizeSynthetic(part.relrDyn.get())`.
I added `PPC32Got2Section` D62464 to support .got2 but did not implement .got2
in another output section.
PR52799 has a linker script placing .got2 in .rodata, which causes a null
pointer dereference because a MergeSyntheticSection's file is nullptr.
Add the support.
The attribute 'r' allows (or disallows for the negative case) read-only
sections, i.e. ones without the SHF_WRITE flag, to be assigned to the
memory region. Before the patch, lld could put a section in the wrong
region or fail with "error: no memory region specified for section".
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113771
Fix a null pointer dereference when .got.plt is discarded.
This also adds a test for discarding `.plt`.
Reviewed By: ikudrin
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D114180
When aligning the start address of an output section introduces a gap between the current dot pointer
and the new aligned address, we were already properly expanding the memory region, if available.
D74286 introduced a new behavior to also align the LMA address if an LMA region is specified.
However, this did not expand the corresponding LMA region.
Now, we also expand the LMA region if it is set.
This fixes PR52510.
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D114166
Non-allocatable sections are not part of the memory image of the
program, so there is no need to find memory regions for them either
matching properties or handling explicit assignments. The early test
and return help to simplify LinkerScript::findMemoryRegion() a bit.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113768
An orphan section should be placed in the same memory region as its
anchor section if the latter specifies the memory region explicitly.
If there is no explicit assignment for the anchor section in the linker
script, its memory region is selected by matching attributes, and the
same should be done for the orphan section.
Before the patch, some scripts that were handled smoothly in GNU ld
caused an "error: no memory region specified for section" in lld.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112925
The hint does not pull its weight:
* adding -Wl,-z,notext often won't work (relocation types other than `symbolRel`, e.g. `R_AARCH64_LDST32_ABS_LO12_NC`)
* for pure (no assembly) C/C++ projects, the "-fPIC" hint is sufficient
If segments are defined in a linker script, placing an orphan section
before the found closest-rank section can result in adding it in a
previous segment and changing flags of that segment. This happens if
the orphan section has a lower sort rank than the found section. To
avoid that, the patch forces orphan sections to be moved after the
found section if segments are explicitly defined.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111717
PT_LOAD segments in the program header must be sorted by their virtual
addresses, so they should be defined in a similar order as the
associated sections.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111068
GNU ld doesn't support multiple SHF_TLS SHT_NOBITS output sections (it restores
the address after an SHF_TLS SHT_NOBITS section, so consecutive SHF_TLS
SHT_NOBITS sections will have conflicting address ranges).
That said, `threadBssOffset` implements limited support for consecutive SHF_TLS
SHT_NOBITS sections. (SHF_TLS SHT_PROGBITS following a SHF_TLS SHT_NOBITS can still be
incorrect.)
`.` in an output section description of an SHF_TLS SHT_NOBITS section is
incorrect. (https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-July/151974.html)
This patch saves the end address of the previous tbss section in
`ctx->tbssAddr`, changes `dot` in the beginning of `assignOffset` so
that `.` evaluation will be correct.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D107208
This is somewhat of a repeat of D66658 but for sections in PT_TLS
segments. Although such sections don't need to be aligned such that
address and offset are congruent modulo the page size, they do need
to be congruent modulo the segment alignment, otherwise the
whole PT_TLS will be unaligned. We therefore use the normal calculation
to determine the section's address within the PT_LOAD rather than
bailing out early due to being SHT_NOBITS.
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106987
This is a similar problem to D66658, where we are too aggressive in not
aligning NOBITS sections, and the tests are based on the ones added for
that fix. If a .tbss section is first in a PT_TLS segment (i.e. there is
no .tdata section) then, although it doesn't need to be aligned such
that address and offset are congruent modulo the page size, they do need
to be congruent modulo the segment alignment, otherwise the whole PT_TLS
will be unaligned.
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106986
For
```
SECTIONS {
text.0 : {}
text.1 : {}
text.2 : {}
} INSERT AFTER .data;
```
the current order is `.data text.2 text.1 text.0`. It makes more sense to
preserve the specified order and thus improve compatibility with GNU ld.
For
```
SECTIONS { text.0 : {} } INSERT AFTER .data;
SECTIONS { text.3 : {} } INSERT AFTER .data;
```
GNU ld somehow collects sections with `INSERT AFTER .data` together (IMO
inconsistent) but I think it makes more sense to execute the commands in order
and get `.data text.3 text.0` instead.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105158
Modify the D13209 logic: for a script inside the sysroot, if an absolute path
does not exist, report an error instead of falling back to the path without the
sysroot prefix.
This matches GNU ld, which makes sense to me: we don't want to find an arbitrary
file in the host.
Reviewed By: ikudrin
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104894
During PHDR creation, the case where an output section does not require a
PT_LOAD header but still occupies memory in the current VMA region was not handled.
If such an output section interleaves two output sections that have the same
VMA and LMA regions set, we would previously re-use the existing PT_LOAD header
for the second output section.
However, since the memory region is not contiguous, we need to start a new PT_LOAD
segment.
This fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50558
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103815
This implements https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26404
An `OVERWRITE_SECTIONS` command is a `SECTIONS` variant which contains several
output section descriptions. The output sections do not have specify an order.
Similar to `INSERT [BEFORE|AFTER]`, `LinkerScript::hasSectionsCommand` is not
set, so the built-in rules (see `docs/ELF/linker_script.rst`) still apply.
`OVERWRITE_SECTIONS` can be more convenient than `INSERT` because it does not
need an anchor section.
The initial syntax is intentionally narrow to facilitate backward compatible
extensions in the future. Symbol assignments cannot be used.
This feature is versatile. To list a few usage:
* Use `section : { KEEP(...) }` to retain input sections under GC
* Define encapsulation symbols (start/end) for an output section
* Use `section : ALIGN(...) : { ... }` to overalign an output section (similar to ld64 `-sectalign`)
When an output section is specified by both `OVERWRITE_SECTIONS` and
`INSERT`, `INSERT` is processed after overwrite sections. To make this work,
this patch changes `InsertCommand` to use name based matching instead of pointer
based matching. (This may cause a difference when `INSERT` moves one output
section more than once. Such duplicate commands should not be used in practice
(seems that in GNU ld the output sections may just disappear).)
A linker script can be used without -T/--script. The traditional `SECTIONS`
commands are concatenated, so a wrong rule can be more noticeable from the
section order. This feature if misused can be less noticeable, just like
`INSERT`.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103303
Change the default to facilitate GC for metadata section usage, so that they
don't need SHF_LINK_ORDER or SHF_GROUP just to drop the unhelpful rule (if they
want to be unconditionally retained, use SHF_GNU_RETAIN
(`__attribute__((retain))`) or linker script `KEEP`).
The dropped SHF_GROUP special case makes the behavior of -z start-stop-gc and -z
nostart-stop-gc closer to GNU ld>=2.37 (https://sourceware.org/PR27451).
However, we default to -z start-stop-gc (which actually matches more closely to
GNU ld before 2015-10 https://sourceware.org/PR19167), which is different from
modern GNU ld (which has the unhelpful rule to work around glibc). As a
compensation, we special case `__libc_` sections as a workaround for glibc<2.34
(https://sourceware.org/PR27492).
Since -z start-stop-gc as the default actually matches the traditional GNU ld
behavior, there isn't much to be aware of. There was a systemd usage which has
been fixed by https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/19144
GNU ld supports `.` and `$` in symbol names while LLD doesn't support them in
`readPrimary` expressions. Using `.` can result in such an error:
```
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1318
ld.lld: error: ./arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds:255: malformed number: .TOC.
>>> __toc_ptr = (DEFINED (.TOC.) ? .TOC. : ADDR (.got)) + 0x8000;
```
Allow `.` (ppc64 special symbol `.TOC.`) and `$` (RISC-V special symbol `__global_pointer$`).
Change `diag[3-5].test` to use an invalid character `^`.
Note: GNU ld allows `~` in non-leading positions of a symbol name. `~`
is not used in practice, conflicts with the unary operator, and can
cause some parsing difficulty, so this patch does not add it.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98306
As we don't sort local symbols, don't sort non-local symbols. This makes
non-local symbols appear in their register order, which matches GNU as. The
register order is nice in that you can write tests with interleaved CHECK
prefixes, e.g.
```
// CHECK: something about foo
.globl foo
foo:
// CHECK: something about bar
.globl bar
bar:
```
With the lexicographical order, the user needs to place lexicographical smallest
symbol first or keep CHECK prefixes in one place.
Fixes PR48523. When the linker errors with "output file too large",
one question that comes to mind is how the section sizes differ from
what they were previously. Unfortunately, this information is lost
when the linker exits without writing the output file. This change
makes it so that the error message includes the sizes of the largest
sections.
Reviewed By: MaskRay, grimar, jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94560
Fix PR48357: If .rela.dyn appears as an output section description, its type may
be SHT_RELA (due to the empty synthetic .rela.plt) while there is no input
section. The empty .rela.dyn may be retained due to a reference in a linker
script. Don't crash.
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93367
This reverts a side effect introduced in the code cleanup patch D43571:
LLD started to emit empty output sections that are explicitly assigned to a segment.
This patch fixes the issue by removing the !sec.phdrs.empty() special case from
isDiscardable. As compensation, we add an early phdrs propagation step (see the inline comment).
This is similar to one that we do in adjustSectionsAfterSorting.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92301
Input sections `.ctors/.ctors.N` may go to either the output section `.init_array` or the output section `.ctors`:
* output `.ctors`: currently we sort them by name. This patch changes to sort by priority from high to low. If N in `.ctors.N` is in the form of %05u, there is no semantic difference. Actually GCC and Clang do use %05u. (In the test `ctors_dtors_priority.s` and Gold's test `gold/testsuite/script_test_14.s`, we can see %03u, but they are not really produced by compilers.)
* output `.init_array`: users can provide an input section description `SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY(.init_array.* .ctors.*)` to mix `.init_array.*` and `.ctors.*`. This can make .init_array.N and .ctors.(65535-N) interchangeable.
With this change, users can mix `.ctors.N` and `.init_array.N` in `.init_array` (PR44698 and PR48096) with linker scripts. As an example:
```
SECTIONS {
.init_array : {
*(SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY(.init_array.* .ctors.*))
*(.init_array EXCLUDE_FILE (*crtbegin.o *crtbegin?.o *crtend.o *crtend?.o ) .ctors)
}
} INSERT AFTER .fini_array;
SECTIONS {
.fini_array : {
*(SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY(.fini_array.* .dtors.*))
*(.fini_array EXCLUDE_FILE (*crtbegin.o *crtbegin?.o *crtend.o *crtend?.o ) .dtors)
}
} INSERT BEFORE .init_array;
```
Reviewed By: psmith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91187
Ben Shi