The .symver directive on common symbol just creates a new common symbol,
not an alias and the newer assembler with the bug fix for
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21661
will issue an error. Before the fix, we got
$ readelf -sW libc.so | grep "loc[12s]"
5109:
00000000003a0608 8 OBJECT LOCAL DEFAULT 36 loc1
5188:
00000000003a0610 8 OBJECT LOCAL DEFAULT 36 loc2
5455:
00000000003a0618 8 OBJECT LOCAL DEFAULT 36 locs
6575:
00000000003a05f0 8 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 36 locs@GLIBC_2.2.5
7156:
00000000003a05f8 8 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 36 loc1@GLIBC_2.2.5
7312:
00000000003a0600 8 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 36 loc2@GLIBC_2.2.5
in libc.so. The versioned loc1, loc2 and locs have the wrong addresses.
After the fix, we got
$ readelf -sW libc.so | grep "loc[12s]"
6570:
000000000039e3b8 8 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 34 locs@GLIBC_2.2.5
7151:
000000000039e3c8 8 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 34 loc1@GLIBC_2.2.5
7307:
000000000039e3c0 8 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 34 loc2@GLIBC_2.2.5
[BZ #21666]
* misc/regexp.c (loc1): Add __attribute__ ((nocommon));
(loc2): Likewise.
(locs): Likewise.
(cherry picked from commit
388b4f1a02f3a801965028bbfcd48d905638b797)
+2017-07-26 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+
+ [BZ #21666]
+ * misc/regexp.c (loc1): Add __attribute__ ((nocommon));
+ (loc2): Likewise.
+ (locs): Likewise.
+
2017-07-12 Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
* sysdeps/aarch64/dl-machine.h (RTLD_START_1): Change _dl_argv to the
#if SHLIB_COMPAT (libc, GLIBC_2_0, GLIBC_2_23)
-/* Define the variables used for the interface. */
-char *loc1;
-char *loc2;
+/* Define the variables used for the interface. Avoid .symver on common
+ symbol, which just creates a new common symbol, not an alias. */
+char *loc1 __attribute__ ((nocommon));
+char *loc2 __attribute__ ((nocommon));
compat_symbol (libc, loc1, loc1, GLIBC_2_0);
compat_symbol (libc, loc2, loc2, GLIBC_2_0);
/* Although we do not support the use we define this variable as well. */
-char *locs;
+char *locs __attribute__ ((nocommon));
compat_symbol (libc, locs, locs, GLIBC_2_0);