> > The reason is that the elf interpreter (ld.so) has overlapping segments.
> >
> Ewww. What toolchain generated this (and what caused it to just start
> happening)? (This was added in v4.17; it's been 3 years.)
gcc 7.3.0 for powerpc Book3E (e5500).
I wonder if there are some linker options related to the overlapping segments.
I tried to find it out why but I failed. And I also didn't see the answer in the
previous discussion yet (Maybe I missed it).
What confuses me is why the other reports only have overlapping sections for
executable binaries or dynamic libraries, but not for their ld.so.
I can keep looking for the reason but it may take a longe time for me.
> > readelf -l ld-2.31.so
> > Program Headers:
> > Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr
> > FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align
> > LOAD 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
> > 0x000000000002c94c 0x000000000002c94c R E 0x10000
> > LOAD 0x000000000002dae0 0x000000000003dae0 0x000000000003dae0
> > 0x00000000000021e8 0x0000000000002320 RW 0x10000
> > LOAD 0x000000000002fe00 0x000000000003fe00 0x000000000003fe00
> > 0x00000000000011ac 0x0000000000001328 RW 0x10000
> >
> > The reason for this problem is the same as described in
> > commit ad55eac74f20 ("elf: enforce MAP_FIXED on overlaying elf segments").
> > Not only executable binaries, elf interpreters (e.g. ld.so) can have
> > overlapping elf segments, so we better drop MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE and go
> > back to MAP_FIXED in load_elf_interp.
>
> We could also just expand the logic that fixed[1] this for ELF, yes?
>
> Andrew, are you able to pick up [1], BTW? It seems to have fallen
> through the cracks.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210916215947.3993776-1-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
Yes, I expand the logic[1] to load_elf_interp and "init" succeeds to start.
Should I submit another patch?
