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authorCarlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell@mentor.com>2012-11-29 18:09:12 -0800
committerCarlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell@mentor.com>2012-11-29 18:12:23 -0800
commitc93ec1f091ec0d114e7a33cb1156e2745162eb4a (patch)
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Warn about unsupported DT_FLAGS_1 flags.
The dynamic loader will now warn about unsupported DT_FLAGS_1 flags when run with LD_DEBUG=files or LD_DEBUG=all.
Diffstat (limited to 'elf')
-rw-r--r--elf/get-dynamic-info.h12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/elf/get-dynamic-info.h b/elf/get-dynamic-info.h
index 9e018de..026f246 100644
--- a/elf/get-dynamic-info.h
+++ b/elf/get-dynamic-info.h
@@ -151,8 +151,16 @@ elf_get_dynamic_info (struct link_map *l, ElfW(Dyn) *temp)
{
l->l_flags_1 = info[VERSYMIDX (DT_FLAGS_1)]->d_un.d_val;
- /* Only DT_1_SUPPORTED_MASK bits are allowed. */
- assert ((l->l_flags_1 & ~DT_1_SUPPORTED_MASK) == 0);
+ /* Only DT_1_SUPPORTED_MASK bits are supported, and we would like
+ to assert this, but we can't. Users have been setting
+ unsupported DF_1_* flags for a long time and glibc has ignored
+ them. Therefore to avoid breaking existing applications the
+ best we can do is add a warning during debugging with the
+ intent of notifying the user of the problem. */
+ if (__builtin_expect (GLRO(dl_debug_mask) & DL_DEBUG_FILES, 0)
+ && l->l_flags_1 & ~DT_1_SUPPORTED_MASK)
+ _dl_debug_printf ("\nWARNING: Unsupported flag value(s) of 0x%x in DT_FLAGS_1.\n",
+ l->l_flags_1 & ~DT_1_SUPPORTED_MASK);
if (l->l_flags_1 & DF_1_NOW)
info[DT_BIND_NOW] = info[VERSYMIDX (DT_FLAGS_1)];