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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2007-10-10 13:33:03 +0100
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2007-10-11 23:46:19 +0100
commitbdf5d42c6e4d7aa56251b8899f60f55a88c0aaa7 (patch)
tree476947dc00f331238a56f138e164465d69aa5615 /arch/mips
parent4b92fe2309c762d9ba9201a16f20d6d167e641b3 (diff)
[MIPS] VPE: reimplement ELF loader.
Loading ELF binaries based on the section table is totally wrong. This still leaves the other fat bug of referencing symbols in an executable unfixed, so people better don't run strip on their binaries ... As added bonus the new loader is also 23 lines shorter. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips')
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c45
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c
index 45077c4b2e2..61b729fa054 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe.c
@@ -936,8 +936,18 @@ static int vpe_elfload(struct vpe * v)
}
} else {
- for (i = 0; i < hdr->e_shnum; i++) {
+ struct elf_phdr *phdr = (struct elf_phdr *) ((char *)hdr + hdr->e_phoff);
+ for (i = 0; i < hdr->e_phnum; i++) {
+ if (phdr->p_type != PT_LOAD)
+ continue;
+
+ memcpy((void *)phdr->p_vaddr, (char *)hdr + phdr->p_offset, phdr->p_filesz);
+ memset((void *)phdr->p_vaddr + phdr->p_filesz, 0, phdr->p_memsz - phdr->p_filesz);
+ phdr++;
+ }
+
+ for (i = 0; i < hdr->e_shnum; i++) {
/* Internal symbols and strings. */
if (sechdrs[i].sh_type == SHT_SYMTAB) {
symindex = i;
@@ -948,39 +958,6 @@ static int vpe_elfload(struct vpe * v)
magic symbols */
sechdrs[i].sh_addr = (size_t) hdr + sechdrs[i].sh_offset;
}
-
- /* filter sections we dont want in the final image */
- if (!(sechdrs[i].sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC) ||
- (sechdrs[i].sh_type == SHT_MIPS_REGINFO)) {
- printk( KERN_DEBUG " ignoring section, "
- "name %s type %x address 0x%x \n",
- secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name,
- sechdrs[i].sh_type, sechdrs[i].sh_addr);
- continue;
- }
-
- if (sechdrs[i].sh_addr < (unsigned int)v->load_addr) {
- printk( KERN_WARNING "VPE loader: "
- "fully linked image has invalid section, "
- "name %s type %x address 0x%x, before load "
- "address of 0x%x\n",
- secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name,
- sechdrs[i].sh_type, sechdrs[i].sh_addr,
- (unsigned int)v->load_addr);
- return -ENOEXEC;
- }
-
- printk(KERN_DEBUG " copying section sh_name %s, sh_addr 0x%x "
- "size 0x%x0 from x%p\n",
- secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name, sechdrs[i].sh_addr,
- sechdrs[i].sh_size, hdr + sechdrs[i].sh_offset);
-
- if (sechdrs[i].sh_type != SHT_NOBITS)
- memcpy((void *)sechdrs[i].sh_addr,
- (char *)hdr + sechdrs[i].sh_offset,
- sechdrs[i].sh_size);
- else
- memset((void *)sechdrs[i].sh_addr, 0, sechdrs[i].sh_size);
}
}