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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:07:59 -0700
From: Daniel Wilkerson <daniel.wilkerson@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Mark Winterrowd <markwinterrowd4@...il.com>
Subject: request for help with aux
The musl crt0 code seems to expect that when the process starts that
the stack pointer points to a data page having the following four data
structures immediately contiguous: argc, argv, env, aux.
I'm writing a loader for musl-riscv and I need to know how to
initialize this data. The only one I wonder about is the aux array.
It seems that aux is a collection of name/value pairs which are used
as follows in musl-riscv/src/env/__libc_start_main.c:
void __init_libc(char **envp, char *pn)
{
size_t i, *auxv, aux[AUX_CNT] = { 0 };
__environ = envp;
for (i=0; envp[i]; i++);
libc.auxv = auxv = (void *)(envp+i+1);
for (i=0; auxv[i]; i+=2) if (auxv[i]<AUX_CNT) aux[auxv[i]] = auxv[i\
+1];
__hwcap = aux[AT_HWCAP];
__sysinfo = aux[AT_SYSINFO];
libc.page_size = aux[AT_PAGESZ];
if (pn) {
__progname = __progname_full = pn;
for (i=0; pn[i]; i++) if (pn[i]=='/') __progname = pn+i+1;
}
__init_tls(aux);
__init_ssp((void *)aux[AT_RANDOM]);
if (aux[AT_UID]==aux[AT_EUID] && aux[AT_GID]==aux[AT_EGID]
&& !aux[AT_SECURE]) return;
struct pollfd pfd[3] = { {.fd=0}, {.fd=1}, {.fd=2} };
#ifdef SYS_poll
__syscall(SYS_poll, pfd, 3, 0);
#else
__syscall(SYS_ppoll, pfd, 3, &(struct timespec){0}, 0, _NSIG/8);
#endif
for (i=0; i<3; i++) if (pfd[i].revents&POLLNVAL)
if (__sys_open("/dev/null", O_RDWR)<0)
a_crash();
libc.secure = 1;
}
This seems to initalize aux to be all zeros, so it seems that in
theory all of the aux values could be optional:
size_t i, *auxv, aux[AUX_CNT] = { 0 };
What I'm wondering is where to find the semantics of all of the aux
names; I could hunt through all of the code, but any high-level
suggestions you could provide could help a lot. As a bonus, which
ones might not have sensible defaults and are actually non-optional,
if any.
Daniel
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