/* Generic BFD support for file formats. Copyright (C) 1990-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Cygnus Support. This file is part of BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ /* SECTION File formats A format is a BFD concept of high level file contents type. The formats supported by BFD are: o <> The BFD may contain data, symbols, relocations and debug info. o <> The BFD contains other BFDs and an optional index. o <> The BFD contains the result of an executable core dump. SUBSECTION File format functions */ #include "sysdep.h" #include "bfd.h" #include "libbfd.h" #include "plugin.h" /* IMPORT from targets.c. */ extern const size_t _bfd_target_vector_entries; /* FUNCTION bfd_check_format SYNOPSIS bool bfd_check_format (bfd *abfd, bfd_format format); DESCRIPTION Verify if the file attached to the BFD @var{abfd} is compatible with the format @var{format} (i.e., one of <>, <> or <>). If the BFD has been set to a specific target before the call, only the named target and format combination is checked. If the target has not been set, or has been set to <>, then all the known target backends is interrogated to determine a match. If the default target matches, it is used. If not, exactly one target must recognize the file, or an error results. The function returns <> on success, otherwise <> with one of the following error codes: o <> - if <> is not one of <>, <> or <>. o <> - if an error occured during a read - even some file mismatches can cause bfd_error_system_calls. o <> - none of the backends recognised the file format. o <> - more than one backend recognised the file format. When calling bfd_check_format (or bfd_check_format_matches), any underlying file descriptor will be kept open for the duration of the call. This is done to avoid races when another thread calls bfd_cache_close_all. In this scenario, the thread calling bfd_check_format must call bfd_cache_close itself. */ bool bfd_check_format (bfd *abfd, bfd_format format) { return bfd_check_format_matches (abfd, format, NULL); } struct bfd_preserve { void *marker; void *tdata; flagword flags; const struct bfd_iovec *iovec; void *iostream; const struct bfd_arch_info *arch_info; const struct bfd_build_id *build_id; bfd_cleanup cleanup; struct bfd_section *sections; struct bfd_section *section_last; unsigned int section_count; unsigned int section_id; unsigned int symcount; bool read_only; bfd_vma start_address; struct bfd_hash_table section_htab; }; /* When testing an object for compatibility with a particular target back-end, the back-end object_p function needs to set up certain fields in the bfd on successfully recognizing the object. This typically happens in a piecemeal fashion, with failures possible at many points. On failure, the bfd is supposed to be restored to its initial state, which is virtually impossible. However, restoring a subset of the bfd state works in practice. This function stores the subset. */ static bool bfd_preserve_save (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_preserve *preserve, bfd_cleanup cleanup) { preserve->tdata = abfd->tdata.any; preserve->arch_info = abfd->arch_info; preserve->flags = abfd->flags; preserve->iovec = abfd->iovec; preserve->iostream = abfd->iostream; preserve->sections = abfd->sections; preserve->section_last = abfd->section_last; preserve->section_count = abfd->section_count; preserve->section_id = _bfd_section_id; preserve->symcount = abfd->symcount; preserve->read_only = abfd->read_only; preserve->start_address = abfd->start_address; preserve->section_htab = abfd->section_htab; preserve->marker = bfd_alloc (abfd, 1); preserve->build_id = abfd->build_id; preserve->cleanup = cleanup; if (preserve->marker == NULL) return false; return bfd_hash_table_init (&abfd->section_htab, bfd_section_hash_newfunc, sizeof (struct section_hash_entry)); } /* A back-end object_p function may flip a bfd from file backed to in-memory, eg. pe_ILF_object_p. In that case to restore the original IO state we need to reopen the file. Conversely, if we are restoring a previously matched pe ILF format and have been checking further target matches using file IO then we need to close the file and detach the bfd from the cache lru list. */ static void io_reinit (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_preserve *preserve) { if (abfd->iovec != preserve->iovec) { /* Handle file backed to in-memory transition. bfd_cache_close won't do anything unless abfd->iovec is the cache_iovec. Don't be tempted to call iovec->bclose here. We don't want to call memory_bclose, which would free the bim. The bim must be kept if bfd_check_format_matches is going to decide later that the PE format needing it is in fact the correct target match. */ bfd_cache_close (abfd); abfd->iovec = preserve->iovec; abfd->iostream = preserve->iostream; /* Handle in-memory to file backed transition. */ if ((abfd->flags & BFD_CLOSED_BY_CACHE) != 0 && (abfd->flags & BFD_IN_MEMORY) != 0 && (preserve->flags & BFD_CLOSED_BY_CACHE) == 0 && (preserve->flags & BFD_IN_MEMORY) == 0) bfd_open_file (abfd); } abfd->flags = preserve->flags; } /* Clear out a subset of BFD state. */ static void bfd_reinit (bfd *abfd, unsigned int section_id, struct bfd_preserve *preserve, bfd_cleanup cleanup) { _bfd_section_id = section_id; if (cleanup) cleanup (abfd); abfd->tdata.any = NULL; abfd->arch_info = &bfd_default_arch_struct; io_reinit (abfd, preserve); abfd->symcount = 0; abfd->read_only = 0; abfd->start_address = 0; abfd->build_id = NULL; bfd_section_list_clear (abfd); } /* Restores bfd state saved by bfd_preserve_save. */ static bfd_cleanup bfd_preserve_restore (bfd *abfd, struct bfd_preserve *preserve) { bfd_hash_table_free (&abfd->section_htab); abfd->tdata.any = preserve->tdata; abfd->arch_info = preserve->arch_info; io_reinit (abfd, preserve); abfd->section_htab = preserve->section_htab; abfd->sections = preserve->sections; abfd->section_last = preserve->section_last; abfd->section_count = preserve->section_count; _bfd_section_id = preserve->section_id; abfd->symcount = preserve->symcount; abfd->read_only = preserve->read_only; abfd->start_address = preserve->start_address; abfd->build_id = preserve->build_id; /* bfd_release frees all memory more recently bfd_alloc'd than its arg, as well as its arg. */ bfd_release (abfd, preserve->marker); preserve->marker = NULL; return preserve->cleanup; } /* Called when the bfd state saved by bfd_preserve_save is no longer needed. */ static void bfd_preserve_finish (bfd *abfd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, struct bfd_preserve *preserve) { if (preserve->cleanup) { /* Run the cleanup, assuming that all it will need is the tdata at the time the cleanup was returned. */ void *tdata = abfd->tdata.any; abfd->tdata.any = preserve->tdata; preserve->cleanup (abfd); abfd->tdata.any = tdata; } /* It would be nice to be able to free more memory here, eg. old tdata, but that's not possible since these blocks are sitting inside bfd_alloc'd memory. The section hash is on a separate objalloc. */ bfd_hash_table_free (&preserve->section_htab); preserve->marker = NULL; } static void print_warnmsg (struct per_xvec_message **list) { for (struct per_xvec_message *warn = *list; warn; warn = warn->next) _bfd_error_handler ("%s", warn->message); } static void clear_warnmsg (struct per_xvec_message **list) { struct per_xvec_message *warn = *list; while (warn) { struct per_xvec_message *next = warn->next; free (warn); warn = next; } *list = NULL; } /* Free all the storage in LIST. Note that the first element of LIST is special and is assumed to be stack-allocated. TARG is used for re-issuing warning messages. If TARG is PER_XVEC_NO_TARGET, then it acts like a sort of wildcard -- messages are reissued if all targets with messages have identical messages. One copy of the messages are then reissued. If TARG is anything else, then only messages associated with TARG are emitted. */ static void print_and_clear_messages (struct per_xvec_messages *list, const bfd_target *targ) { struct per_xvec_messages *iter; if (targ == PER_XVEC_NO_TARGET) { iter = list->next; while (iter != NULL) { struct per_xvec_message *msg1 = list->messages; struct per_xvec_message *msg2 = iter->messages; do { if (strcmp (msg1->message, msg2->message)) break; msg1 = msg1->next; msg2 = msg2->next; } while (msg1 && msg2); if (msg1 || msg2) break; iter = iter->next; } if (iter == NULL) targ = list->targ; } iter = list; while (iter != NULL) { struct per_xvec_messages *next = iter->next; if (iter->targ == targ) print_warnmsg (&iter->messages); clear_warnmsg (&iter->messages); if (iter != list) free (iter); iter = next; } /* Don't retain a pointer to free'd memory. */ list->next = NULL; } /* Discard all messages associated with TARG in LIST. Unlike print_and_clear_messages, PER_XVEC_NO_TARGET is not valid for TARG. */ static void clear_messages (struct per_xvec_messages *list, const bfd_target *targ) { struct per_xvec_messages *iter; for (iter = list; iter != NULL; iter = iter->next) { if (iter->targ == targ) clear_warnmsg (&iter->messages); } } /* This a copy of lto_section defined in GCC (lto-streamer.h). */ struct lto_section { int16_t major_version; int16_t minor_version; unsigned char slim_object; /* Flags is a private field that is not defined publicly. */ uint16_t flags; }; /* Set lto_type in ABFD. */ static void bfd_set_lto_type (bfd *abfd) { if (abfd->format == bfd_object && abfd->lto_type == lto_non_object && (abfd->flags & (DYNAMIC | (bfd_get_flavour (abfd) == bfd_target_elf_flavour ? EXEC_P : 0))) == 0) { asection *sec = abfd->sections; enum bfd_lto_object_type type = lto_non_ir_object; if (sec == NULL) { /* If there are no sections, check for slim LLVM IR object whose first 4 bytes are: 'B', 'C', 0xc0, 0xde. */ bfd_byte llvm_ir_magic[4]; if (bfd_seek (abfd, 0, SEEK_SET) == 0 && bfd_read (llvm_ir_magic, 4, abfd) == 4 && llvm_ir_magic[0] == 'B' && llvm_ir_magic[1] == 'C' && llvm_ir_magic[2] == 0xc0 && llvm_ir_magic[3] == 0xde) type = lto_slim_ir_object; } else { struct lto_section lsection = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }; /* GCC uses .gnu.lto_.lto. as a LTO bytecode information section. */ for (; sec != NULL; sec = sec->next) if (strcmp (sec->name, GNU_OBJECT_ONLY_SECTION_NAME) == 0) { type = lto_mixed_object; abfd->object_only_section = sec; break; } else if (strcmp (sec->name, ".llvm.lto") == 0) { type = lto_fat_ir_object; break; } else if (lsection.major_version == 0 && startswith (sec->name, ".gnu.lto_.lto.") && bfd_get_section_contents (abfd, sec, &lsection, 0, sizeof (struct lto_section))) { if (lsection.slim_object) type = lto_slim_ir_object; else type = lto_fat_ir_object; } } abfd->lto_type = type; } } /* FUNCTION bfd_check_format_matches SYNOPSIS bool bfd_check_format_matches (bfd *abfd, bfd_format format, char ***matching); DESCRIPTION Like <>, except when it returns FALSE with <> set to <>. In that case, if @var{matching} is not NULL, it will be filled in with a NULL-terminated list of the names of the formats that matched, allocated with <>. Then the user may choose a format and try again. When done with the list that @var{matching} points to, the caller should free it. */ bool bfd_check_format_matches (bfd *abfd, bfd_format format, char ***matching) { extern const bfd_target binary_vec; const bfd_target * const *target; const bfd_target **matching_vector = NULL; const bfd_target *save_targ, *right_targ, *ar_right_targ, *match_targ; const bfd_target *fail_targ; int match_count, best_count, best_match; int ar_match_index; unsigned int initial_section_id = _bfd_section_id; struct bfd_preserve preserve, preserve_match; bfd_cleanup cleanup = NULL; struct per_xvec_messages messages = { abfd, PER_XVEC_NO_TARGET, NULL, NULL }; struct per_xvec_messages *orig_messages; bool old_in_format_matches; if (matching != NULL) *matching = NULL; if (!bfd_read_p (abfd) || (unsigned int) abfd->format >= (unsigned int) bfd_type_end) { bfd_set_error (bfd_error_invalid_operation); return false; } if (abfd->format != bfd_unknown) return abfd->format == format; if (matching != NULL || *bfd_associated_vector != NULL) { size_t amt; amt = sizeof (*matching_vector) * 2 * _bfd_target_vector_entries; matching_vector = (const bfd_target **) bfd_malloc (amt); if (!matching_vector) return false; } /* Avoid clashes with bfd_cache_close_all running in another thread. */ if (!bfd_cache_set_uncloseable (abfd, true, &old_in_format_matches)) { free (matching_vector); return false; } /* Locking is required here in order to manage _bfd_section_id. */ if (!bfd_lock ()) { bfd_cache_set_uncloseable (abfd, old_in_format_matches, NULL); free (matching_vector); return false; } /* Presume the answer is yes. */ abfd->format = format; save_targ = abfd->xvec; /* Don't report errors on recursive calls checking the first element of an archive. */ orig_messages = _bfd_set_error_handler_caching (&messages); preserve_match.marker = NULL; if (!bfd_preserve_save (abfd, &preserve, NULL)) goto err_ret; /* First try matching the plugin target if appropriate. Next try the current target. The current target may have been set due to a user option, or due to the linker trying optimistically to load input files for the same target as the output. Either will have target_defaulted false. Failing that, bfd_find_target will have chosen a default target, and target_defaulted will be true. */ fail_targ = NULL; if (bfd_plugin_enabled () && abfd->format == bfd_object && abfd->target_defaulted && !abfd->is_linker_input && abfd->plugin_format != bfd_plugin_no) { if (bfd_seek (abfd, 0, SEEK_SET) != 0) goto err_ret; BFD_ASSERT (save_targ != bfd_plugin_vec ()); abfd->xvec = bfd_plugin_vec (); bfd_set_error (bfd_error_no_error); cleanup = BFD_SEND_FMT (abfd, _bfd_check_format, (abfd)); if (cleanup) goto ok_ret; bfd_reinit (abfd, initial_section_id, &preserve, cleanup); bfd_release (abfd, preserve.marker); preserve.marker = bfd_alloc (abfd, 1); abfd->xvec = save_targ; } /* bfd_plugin_no excluding the plugin target is an optimisation. The test can be removed if desired. */ if (!(abfd->plugin_format == bfd_plugin_no && bfd_plugin_target_p (save_targ))) { if (bfd_seek (abfd, 0, SEEK_SET) != 0) goto err_ret; bfd_set_error (bfd_error_no_error); cleanup = BFD_SEND_FMT (abfd, _bfd_check_format, (abfd)); if (cleanup) { if (abfd->format != bfd_archive /* An archive with object files matching the archive target is OK. Other archives should be further tested. */ || (bfd_has_map (abfd) && bfd_get_error () != bfd_error_wrong_object_format) /* Empty archives can match the current target. Attempting to read the armap will result in a file truncated error. */ || (!bfd_has_map (abfd) && bfd_get_error () == bfd_error_file_truncated)) goto ok_ret; } else { if (!abfd->target_defaulted && !abfd->is_linker_input) goto err_unrecog; fail_targ = save_targ; } } /* Check all targets in the hope that one will be recognized. */ right_targ = NULL; ar_right_targ = NULL; match_targ = NULL; best_match = 256; best_count = 0; match_count = 0; ar_match_index = _bfd_target_vector_entries; for (target = bfd_target_vector; *target != NULL; target++) { void **high_water; /* The binary target matches anything, so don't return it when searching. Also, don't check the current target twice when it has failed already. Don't match the plugin target during linking if we have another alternative since we want to properly set the input format before allowing a plugin to claim the file. Also as an optimisation don't match the plugin target when abfd->plugin_format is set to bfd_plugin_no. (This occurs when LTO sections have been stripped or when we have a recursive call here from the plugin object_p via bfd_plugin_get_symbols_in_object_only.) */ if (*target == &binary_vec || *target == fail_targ || (((abfd->is_linker_input && match_count != 0) || abfd->plugin_format == bfd_plugin_no) && bfd_plugin_target_p (*target))) continue; /* If we already tried a match, the bfd is modified and may have sections attached, which will confuse the next _bfd_check_format call. */ bfd_reinit (abfd, initial_section_id, &preserve, cleanup); /* Free bfd_alloc memory too. If we have matched and preserved a target then the high water mark is that much higher. */ if (preserve_match.marker) high_water = &preserve_match.marker; else high_water = &preserve.marker; bfd_release (abfd, *high_water); *high_water = bfd_alloc (abfd, 1); /* Change BFD's target temporarily. */ abfd->xvec = *target; /* It is possible that targets appear multiple times in bfd_target_vector. If this is the case, then we want to avoid accumulating duplicate messages for a target in MESSAGES, so discard any previous messages associated with this target. */ clear_messages (&messages, abfd->xvec); if (bfd_seek (abfd, 0, SEEK_SET) != 0) goto err_ret; bfd_set_error (bfd_error_no_error); cleanup = BFD_SEND_FMT (abfd, _bfd_check_format, (abfd)); if (cleanup) { int match_priority = abfd->xvec->match_priority; if (abfd->format != bfd_archive || (bfd_has_map (abfd) && bfd_get_error () != bfd_error_wrong_object_format)) { /* If this is the default target, accept it, even if other targets might match. People who want those other targets have to set the GNUTARGET variable. */ if (abfd->xvec == bfd_default_vector[0]) goto ok_ret; if (matching_vector) matching_vector[match_count] = abfd->xvec; match_count++; if (match_priority < best_match) { best_match = match_priority; best_count = 0; } if (match_priority <= best_match) { /* This format checks out as ok! */ right_targ = abfd->xvec; best_count++; } } else { /* An archive with no armap or objects of the wrong type. We want this target to match if we get no better matches. */ if (ar_right_targ != bfd_default_vector[0]) ar_right_targ = *target; if (matching_vector) matching_vector[ar_match_index] = *target; ar_match_index++; } if (preserve_match.marker == NULL) { match_targ = abfd->xvec; if (!bfd_preserve_save (abfd, &preserve_match, cleanup)) goto err_ret; cleanup = NULL; } } } if (best_count == 1) match_count = 1; if (match_count == 0) { /* Try partial matches. */ right_targ = ar_right_targ; if (right_targ == bfd_default_vector[0]) { match_count = 1; } else { match_count = ar_match_index - _bfd_target_vector_entries; if (matching_vector && match_count > 1) memcpy (matching_vector, matching_vector + _bfd_target_vector_entries, sizeof (*matching_vector) * match_count); } } /* We have more than one equally good match. If any of the best matches is a target in config.bfd targ_defvec or targ_selvecs, choose it. */ if (match_count > 1) { const bfd_target * const *assoc = bfd_associated_vector; while ((right_targ = *assoc++) != NULL) { int i = match_count; while (--i >= 0) if (matching_vector[i] == right_targ && right_targ->match_priority <= best_match) break; if (i >= 0) { match_count = 1; break; } } } /* We still have more than one equally good match, and at least some of the targets support match priority. Choose the first of the best matches. */ if (matching_vector && match_count > 1 && best_count != match_count) { int i; for (i = 0; i < match_count; i++) { right_targ = matching_vector[i]; if (right_targ->match_priority <= best_match) break; } match_count = 1; } /* There is way too much undoing of half-known state here. We really shouldn't iterate on live bfd's. Note that saving the whole bfd and restoring it would be even worse; the first thing you notice is that the cached bfd file position gets out of sync. */ if (preserve_match.marker != NULL) cleanup = bfd_preserve_restore (abfd, &preserve_match); if (match_count == 1) { abfd->xvec = right_targ; /* If we come out of the loop knowing that the last target that matched is the one we want, then ABFD should still be in a usable state (except possibly for XVEC). This is not just an optimisation. In the case of plugins a match against the plugin target can result in the bfd being changed such that it no longer matches the plugin target, nor will it match RIGHT_TARG again. */ if (match_targ != right_targ) { bfd_reinit (abfd, initial_section_id, &preserve, cleanup); bfd_release (abfd, preserve.marker); if (bfd_seek (abfd, 0, SEEK_SET) != 0) goto err_ret; cleanup = BFD_SEND_FMT (abfd, _bfd_check_format, (abfd)); BFD_ASSERT (cleanup != NULL); } ok_ret: /* If the file was opened for update, then `output_has_begun' some time ago when the file was created. Do not recompute sections sizes or alignments in _bfd_set_section_contents. We can not set this flag until after checking the format, because it will interfere with creation of BFD sections. */ if (abfd->direction == both_direction) abfd->output_has_begun = true; free (matching_vector); if (preserve_match.marker != NULL) bfd_preserve_finish (abfd, &preserve_match); bfd_preserve_finish (abfd, &preserve); _bfd_restore_error_handler_caching (orig_messages); print_and_clear_messages (&messages, abfd->xvec); bfd_set_lto_type (abfd); /* File position has moved, BTW. */ bool ret = bfd_cache_set_uncloseable (abfd, old_in_format_matches, NULL); if (!bfd_unlock ()) return false; return ret; } if (match_count == 0) { err_unrecog: bfd_set_error (bfd_error_file_not_recognized); err_ret: if (cleanup) cleanup (abfd); abfd->xvec = save_targ; abfd->format = bfd_unknown; free (matching_vector); goto out; } /* Restore original target type and format. */ abfd->xvec = save_targ; abfd->format = bfd_unknown; bfd_set_error (bfd_error_file_ambiguously_recognized); if (matching) { *matching = (char **) matching_vector; matching_vector[match_count] = NULL; /* Return target names. This is a little nasty. Maybe we should do another bfd_malloc? */ while (--match_count >= 0) { const char *name = matching_vector[match_count]->name; *(const char **) &matching_vector[match_count] = name; } } else free (matching_vector); if (cleanup) cleanup (abfd); out: if (preserve_match.marker != NULL) bfd_preserve_finish (abfd, &preserve_match); if (preserve.marker != NULL) bfd_preserve_restore (abfd, &preserve); _bfd_restore_error_handler_caching (orig_messages); print_and_clear_messages (&messages, PER_XVEC_NO_TARGET); bfd_cache_set_uncloseable (abfd, old_in_format_matches, NULL); bfd_unlock (); return false; } /* FUNCTION bfd_set_format SYNOPSIS bool bfd_set_format (bfd *abfd, bfd_format format); DESCRIPTION This function sets the file format of the BFD @var{abfd} to the format @var{format}. If the target set in the BFD does not support the format requested, the format is invalid, or the BFD is not open for writing, then an error occurs. */ bool bfd_set_format (bfd *abfd, bfd_format format) { if (bfd_read_p (abfd) || (unsigned int) abfd->format >= (unsigned int) bfd_type_end) { bfd_set_error (bfd_error_invalid_operation); return false; } if (abfd->format != bfd_unknown) return abfd->format == format; /* Presume the answer is yes. */ abfd->format = format; if (!BFD_SEND_FMT (abfd, _bfd_set_format, (abfd))) { abfd->format = bfd_unknown; return false; } return true; } /* FUNCTION bfd_format_string SYNOPSIS const char *bfd_format_string (bfd_format format); DESCRIPTION Return a pointer to a const string <>, <>, <>, <>, or <>, depending upon the value of @var{format}. */ const char * bfd_format_string (bfd_format format) { if (((int) format < (int) bfd_unknown) || ((int) format >= (int) bfd_type_end)) return "invalid"; switch (format) { case bfd_object: return "object"; /* Linker/assembler/compiler output. */ case bfd_archive: return "archive"; /* Object archive file. */ case bfd_core: return "core"; /* Core dump. */ default: return "unknown"; } }