Old: PT_LOAD(.data | PT_GNU_RELRO(.data.rel.ro .bss.rel.ro) | .bss)
New: PT_LOAD(PT_GNU_RELRO(.data.rel.ro .bss.rel.ro) | .data .bss)
The placement of | indicates page alignment caused by PT_GNU_RELRO. The
new layout has simpler rules and saves space for many cases.
Old size: roundup(.data) + roundup(.data.rel.ro)
New size: roundup(.data.rel.ro + .bss.rel.ro) + .data
Other advantages:
* At runtime the 3 memory mappings decrease to 2.
* start(PT_TLS) = start(PT_GNU_RELRO) = start(RW PT_LOAD). This
simplifies binary manipulation tools.
GNU strip before 2.31 discards PT_GNU_RELRO if its
address is not equal to the start of its associated PT_LOAD.
This has been fixed by https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f2731e0c374e5323ce4cdae2bcc7b7fe22da1a6f
But with this change, we will be compatible with GNU strip before 2.31
* Before, .got.plt (non-relro by default) was placed before .got (relro
by default), which made it impossible to have _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
(start of .got.plt on x86-64) equal to the end of .got (R_GOT*_FROM_END)
(https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36555). With the new ordering, we
can improve on this regard if we'd like to.
Reviewers: ruiu, espindola, pcc
Subscribers: emaste, arichardson, llvm-commits, joerg, jdoerfert
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56828
llvm-svn: 356117
If a linker script is used that names linker generated synthetic sections
it is possible that the OutputSections for which isRelroSection() is true
are not contiguous. When the relro sections are not contiguous we cannot
describe them with a single PT_GNU_RELRO PHDR. Unfortunately at least one
contemporary dynamic loader only supports one PT_GNU_RELRO PHDR so we
cannot output more than one of these PHDRs. As not including relro
sections in the PHDR will lead to security sensitive sections being
writeable we choose to give an error message instead.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40359
[ELF] Skip over empty sections when checking for contiguous relro
llvm-svn: 318920
Fangrui Song