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d66e34cd 1/* Run-time dynamic linker data structures for loaded ELF shared objects.
df4ef2ab 2 Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
54d79e99 3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
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5 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
7 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
8 License, or (at your option) any later version.
d66e34cd 9
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10 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Library General Public License for more details.
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15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
16 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
17 write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
18 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
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19
20#ifndef _LINK_H
21#define _LINK_H 1
22
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23#define __need_size_t
24#include <stddef.h>
25
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26#include <elf.h>
27
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28/* We use this macro to refer to ELF types independent of the native wordsize.
29 `ElfW(TYPE)' is used in place of `Elf32_TYPE' or `Elf64_TYPE'. */
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30#define ElfW(type) _ElfW (Elf, __ELF_NATIVE_CLASS, type)
31#define ELFW(type) _ElfW (ELF, __ELF_NATIVE_CLASS, type)
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32#define _ElfW(e,w,t) _ElfW_1 (e, w, _##t)
33#define _ElfW_1(e,w,t) e##w##t
567c63af 34#include <elfclass.h> /* Defines __ELF_NATIVE_CLASS. */
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35
36/* Rendezvous structure used by the run-time dynamic linker to communicate
37 details of shared object loading to the debugger. If the executable's
38 dynamic section has a DT_DEBUG element, the run-time linker sets that
39 element's value to the address where this structure can be found. */
40
41struct r_debug
42 {
43 int r_version; /* Version number for this protocol. */
44
45 struct link_map *r_map; /* Head of the chain of loaded objects. */
46
47 /* This is the address of a function internal to the run-time linker,
48 that will always be called when the linker begins to map in a
49 library or unmap it, and again when the mapping change is complete.
50 The debugger can set a breakpoint at this address if it wants to
51 notice shared object mapping changes. */
266180eb 52 ElfW(Addr) r_brk;
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53 enum
54 {
55 /* This state value describes the mapping change taking place when
56 the `r_brk' address is called. */
57 RT_CONSISTENT, /* Mapping change is complete. */
58 RT_ADD, /* Beginning to add a new object. */
59 RT_DELETE, /* Beginning to remove an object mapping. */
60 } r_state;
61
266180eb 62 ElfW(Addr) r_ldbase; /* Base address the linker is loaded at. */
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63 };
64
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65/* This is the instance of that structure used by the dynamic linker. */
66extern struct r_debug _r_debug;
67
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68/* This symbol refers to the "dynamic structure" in the `.dynamic' section
69 of whatever module refers to `_DYNAMIC'. So, to find its own
70 `struct r_debug', a program could do:
71 for (dyn = _DYNAMIC; dyn->d_tag != DT_NULL)
72 if (dyn->d_tag == DT_DEBUG) r_debug = (struct r_debug) dyn->d_un.d_ptr;
73 */
74
266180eb 75extern ElfW(Dyn) _DYNAMIC[];
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76
77
78/* Structure describing a loaded shared object. The `l_next' and `l_prev'
79 members form a chain of all the shared objects loaded at startup.
80
81 These data structures exist in space used by the run-time dynamic linker;
82 modifying them may have disastrous results. */
83
84struct link_map
85 {
86 /* These first few members are part of the protocol with the debugger.
87 This is the same format used in SVR4. */
88
266180eb 89 ElfW(Addr) l_addr; /* Base address shared object is loaded at. */
d66e34cd 90 char *l_name; /* Absolute file name object was found in. */
266180eb 91 ElfW(Dyn) *l_ld; /* Dynamic section of the shared object. */
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92 struct link_map *l_next, *l_prev; /* Chain of loaded objects. */
93
94 /* All following members are internal to the dynamic linker.
95 They may change without notice. */
96
97 const char *l_libname; /* Name requested (before search). */
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98 /* Indexed pointers to dynamic section.
99 [0,DT_NUM) are indexed by the processor-independent tags.
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100 [DT_NUM,DT_NUM+DT_PROCNUM) are indexed by the tag minus DT_LOPROC.
101 [DT_NUM+DT_PROCNUM,DT_NUM+DT_PROCNUM+DT_EXTRANUM) are indexed
102 by DT_EXTRATAGIDX(tagvalue) (see <elf.h>). */
103
104 ElfW(Dyn) *l_info[DT_NUM + DT_PROCNUM + DT_EXTRANUM];
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105 const ElfW(Phdr) *l_phdr; /* Pointer to program header table in core. */
106 ElfW(Addr) l_entry; /* Entry point location. */
107 ElfW(Half) l_phnum; /* Number of program header entries. */
d66e34cd 108
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109 /* Array of DT_NEEDED dependencies and their dependencies, in
110 dependency order for symbol lookup. This is null before the
111 dependencies have been loaded. */
112 struct link_map **l_searchlist;
113 unsigned int l_nsearchlist;
114
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115 /* We keep another list in which we keep duplicates. This is
116 needed in _dl_lookup_symbol_skip to implemented RTLD_NEXT. */
117 struct link_map **l_dupsearchlist;
118 unsigned int l_ndupsearchlist;
119
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120 /* Dependent object that first caused this object to be loaded. */
121 struct link_map *l_loader;
122
d66e34cd 123 /* Symbol hash table. */
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124 ElfW(Symndx) l_nbuckets;
125 const ElfW(Symndx) *l_buckets, *l_chain;
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126
127 unsigned int l_opencount; /* Reference count for dlopen/dlclose. */
128 enum /* Where this object came from. */
129 {
130 lt_executable, /* The main executable program. */
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131 lt_library, /* Library needed by main executable. */
132 lt_loaded, /* Extra run-time loaded shared object. */
133 } l_type:2;
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134 unsigned int l_relocated:1; /* Nonzero if object's relocations done. */
135 unsigned int l_init_called:1; /* Nonzero if DT_INIT function called. */
136 unsigned int l_init_running:1; /* Nonzero while DT_INIT function runs. */
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137 unsigned int l_global:1; /* Nonzero if object in _dl_global_scope. */
138 unsigned int l_reserved:2; /* Reserved for internal use. */
d66e34cd 139 };
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140
141
142/* Function used as argument for `_dl_receive_error' function. The
143 arguments are the error string and the objname the error occurred
144 in. */
145typedef void (*receiver_fct) (const char *, const char *);
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146\f
147/* Internal functions of the run-time dynamic linker.
148 These can be accessed if you link again the dynamic linker
149 as a shared library, as in `-lld' or `/lib/ld.so' explicitly;
150 but are not normally of interest to user programs.
151
152 The `-ldl' library functions in <dlfcn.h> provide a simple
153 user interface to run-time dynamic linking. */
154
155
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156/* Cached value of `getpagesize ()'. */
157extern size_t _dl_pagesize;
158
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159/* File descriptor referring to the zero-fill device. */
160extern int _dl_zerofd;
161
162/* OS-dependent function to open the zero-fill device. */
163extern int _dl_sysdep_open_zero_fill (void); /* dl-sysdep.c */
164
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165/* OS-dependent function to write a message on the standard output.
166 All arguments are `const char *'; args until a null pointer
167 are concatenated to form the message to print. */
168extern void _dl_sysdep_message (const char *string, ...);
169
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170/* OS-dependent function to write a message on the standard error.
171 All arguments are `const char *'; args until a null pointer
172 are concatenated to form the message to print. */
173extern void _dl_sysdep_error (const char *string, ...);
174
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175/* OS-dependent function to give a fatal error message and exit
176 when the dynamic linker fails before the program is fully linked.
177 All arguments are `const char *'; args until a null pointer
178 are concatenated to form the message to print. */
179extern void _dl_sysdep_fatal (const char *string, ...)
180 __attribute__ ((__noreturn__));
181
182/* Nonzero if the program should be "secure" (i.e. it's setuid or somesuch).
183 This tells the dynamic linker to ignore environment variables. */
184extern int _dl_secure;
185
186/* This function is called by all the internal dynamic linker functions
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187 when they encounter an error. ERRCODE is either an `errno' code or
188 zero; OBJECT is the name of the problematical shared object, or null if
189 it is a general problem; ERRSTRING is a string describing the specific
190 problem. */
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191extern void _dl_signal_error (int errcode,
192 const char *object,
fd26970f 193 const char *errstring);
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194
195/* Call OPERATE, catching errors from `dl_signal_error'. If there is no
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196 error, *ERRSTRING is set to null. If there is an error, *ERRSTRING and
197 *OBJECT are set to the strings passed to _dl_signal_error, and the error
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198 code passed is the return value. ERRSTRING if nonzero points to a
199 malloc'ed string which the caller has to free after use. */
200extern int _dl_catch_error (char **errstring,
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201 const char **object,
202 void (*operate) (void));
d66e34cd 203
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204/* Call OPERATE, receiving errors from `dl_signal_error'. Unlike
205 `_dl_catch_error' the operation is resumed after the OPERATE
206 function returns. */
207extern void _dl_receive_error (receiver_fct fct, void (*operate) (void));
208
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209
210/* Helper function for <dlfcn.h> functions. Runs the OPERATE function via
211 _dl_catch_error. Returns zero for success, nonzero for failure; and
212 arranges for `dlerror' to return the error details. */
213extern int _dlerror_run (void (*operate) (void));
214
215
216/* Open the shared object NAME and map in its segments.
217 LOADER's DT_RPATH is used in searching for NAME.
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218 If the object is already opened, returns its existing map. */
219extern struct link_map *_dl_map_object (struct link_map *loader,
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220 const char *name, int type,
221 int trace_mode);
ea03559a 222
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223/* Call _dl_map_object on the dependencies of MAP, and set up
224 MAP->l_searchlist. PRELOADS points to a vector of NPRELOADS previously
225 loaded objects that will be inserted into MAP->l_searchlist after MAP
226 but before its dependencies. */
227extern void _dl_map_object_deps (struct link_map *map,
228 struct link_map **preloads,
46ec036d 229 unsigned int npreloads, int trace_mode);
efec1d0c 230
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231/* Cache the locations of MAP's hash table. */
232extern void _dl_setup_hash (struct link_map *map);
233
234
efec1d0c 235/* Open the shared object NAME, relocate it, and run its initializer if it
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236 hasn't already been run. MODE is as for `dlopen' (see <dlfcn.h>). If
237 the object is already opened, returns its existing map. */
238extern struct link_map *_dl_open (const char *name, int mode);
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240/* Close an object previously opened by _dl_open. */
241extern void _dl_close (struct link_map *map);
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242
243
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244/* Search loaded objects' symbol tables for a definition of the symbol
245 referred to by UNDEF. *SYM is the symbol table entry containing the
246 reference; it is replaced with the defining symbol, and the base load
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247 address of the defining object is returned. SYMBOL_SCOPE is a
248 null-terminated list of object scopes to search; each object's
249 l_searchlist (i.e. the segment of the dependency tree starting at that
250 object) is searched in turn. REFERENCE_NAME should name the object
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251 containing the reference; it is used in error messages. FLAGS is a
252 set of flags: */
253#define DL_LOOKUP_NOEXEC 1 /* Don't search the executable for a
254 definition; this is used for copy
255 relocs. */
256#define DL_LOOKUP_NOPLT 2 /* The reference must not be resolved
257 to a PLT entry. */
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258extern ElfW(Addr) _dl_lookup_symbol (const char *undef,
259 const ElfW(Sym) **sym,
ba79d61b 260 struct link_map *symbol_scope[],
f2b0f935 261 const char *reference_name,
706074a5 262 int flags);
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264/* For handling RTLD_NEXT we must be able to skip shared objects. */
265extern ElfW(Addr) _dl_lookup_symbol_skip (const char *undef,
266 const ElfW(Sym) **sym,
267 struct link_map *symbol_scope[],
268 const char *reference_name,
269 struct link_map *skip_this,
270 int flags);
271
ee188d55 272/* Look up symbol NAME in MAP's scope and return its run-time address. */
266180eb 273extern ElfW(Addr) _dl_symbol_value (struct link_map *map, const char *name);
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274
275
276/* Structure describing the dynamic linker itself. */
277extern struct link_map _dl_rtld_map;
d66e34cd 278
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279/* The list of objects currently loaded is the third element of the
280 `_dl_default_scope' array, and the fourth element is always null.
281 This leaves two slots before it that are used when resolving
282 DT_SYMBOLIC objects' references one after it for normal references
283 (see below). */
284#define _dl_loaded (_dl_default_scope[2])
285extern struct link_map *_dl_default_scope[5];
286
287/* Null-terminated list of objects in the dynamic `global scope'. The
288 list starts at [2]; i.e. &_dl_global_scope[2] is the argument
289 passed to _dl_lookup_symbol to search the global scope. To search
290 a specific object and its dependencies in preference to the global
291 scope, fill in the [1] slot and pass its address; for two specific
292 object scopes, fill [0] and [1]. The list is double-terminated; to
293 search the global scope and then a specific object and its
294 dependencies, set *_dl_global_scope_end. This variable initially
295 points to _dl_default_scope, and _dl_loaded is always kept in [2]
296 of this list. A new list is malloc'd when new objects are loaded
297 with RTLD_GLOBAL. */
298extern struct link_map **_dl_global_scope, **_dl_global_scope_end;
299extern size_t _dl_global_scope_alloc; /* Number of slots malloc'd. */
300
301/* Hack _dl_global_scope[0] and [1] as necessary, and return a pointer into
302 _dl_global_scope that should be passed to _dl_lookup_symbol for symbol
303 references made in the object MAP's relocations. */
304extern struct link_map **_dl_object_relocation_scope (struct link_map *map);
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306
307/* Allocate a `struct link_map' for a new object being loaded,
308 and enter it into the _dl_loaded list. */
309extern struct link_map *_dl_new_object (char *realname, const char *libname,
310 int type);
311
312/* Relocate the given object (if it hasn't already been).
ba79d61b 313 SCOPE is passed to _dl_lookup_symbol in symbol lookups.
d66e34cd 314 If LAZY is nonzero, don't relocate its PLT. */
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315extern void _dl_relocate_object (struct link_map *map,
316 struct link_map *scope[],
317 int lazy);
d66e34cd 318
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319/* Return the address of the next initializer function for MAP or one of
320 its dependencies that has not yet been run. When there are no more
321 initializers to be run, this returns zero. The functions are returned
322 in the order they should be called. */
266180eb 323extern ElfW(Addr) _dl_init_next (struct link_map *map);
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324
325/* Call the finalizer functions of all shared objects whose
326 initializer functions have completed. */
327extern void _dl_fini (void);
328
329/* The dynamic linker calls this function before and having changing
330 any shared object mappings. The `r_state' member of `struct r_debug'
331 says what change is taking place. This function's address is
332 the value of the `r_brk' member. */
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333extern void _dl_debug_state (void);
334
335/* Initialize `struct r_debug' if it has not already been done. The
336 argument is the run-time load address of the dynamic linker, to be put
337 in the `r_ldbase' member. Returns the address of the structure. */
338extern struct r_debug *_dl_debug_initialize (ElfW(Addr) ldbase);
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339
340
341#endif /* link.h */