GNU ld allows sections after a non-SHF_ALLOC section to be covered by PT_LOAD
(PR37607) and assigns addresses to non-SHF_ALLOC output sections (similar to
SHF_ALLOC NOBITS sections. The location counter is not advanced).
This patch tries to fix PR37607 (remove a special case in
`Writer<ELFT>::createPhdrs`). To make the created PT_LOAD meaningful, we cannot
reset dot to 0 for a middle non-SHF_ALLOC output section. This results in
removal of two special cases in LinkerScript::assignOffsets. Non-SHF_ALLOC
non-orphan sections can have non-zero addresses like in GNU ld.
The zero address rule for non-SHF_ALLOC sections is weakened to apply to orphan
only. This results in a special case in createSection and findOrphanPos, respectively.
Reviewed By: jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85100
GNU ld allows sections after a non-SHF_ALLOC section to be covered by PT_LOAD
(PR37607) and assigns addresses to non-SHF_ALLOC output sections (similar to
SHF_ALLOC NOBITS sections. The location counter is not advanced).
This patch tries to fix PR37607 (remove a special case in
`Writer<ELFT>::createPhdrs`). To make the created PT_LOAD meaningful, we cannot
reset dot to 0 for a middle non-SHF_ALLOC output section. This results in
removal of two special cases in LinkerScript::assignOffsets. Non-SHF_ALLOC
non-orphan sections can have non-zero addresses like in GNU ld.
The zero address rule for non-SHF_ALLOC sections is weakened to apply to orphan
only. This results in a special case in createSection and findOrphanPos, respectively.
Reviewed By: jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85100
Previously, in r320472, I moved the calculation of section offsets and sizes
for compressed debug sections into maybeCompress, which happens before
assignAddresses, so that the compression had the required information. However,
I failed to take account of relocations that patch such sections. This had two
effects:
1. A race condition existed when a debug section referred to a different debug
section (see PR35788).
2. References to symbols in non-debug sections would be patched incorrectly.
This is because the addresses of such symbols are not calculated until after
assignAddresses (this was a partial regression caused by r320472, but they
could still have been broken before, in the event that a custom layout was used
in a linker script).
assignAddresses does not need to know about the output section size of
non-allocatable sections, because they do not affect the value of Dot. This
means that there is no longer a reason not to support custom layout of
compressed debug sections, as far as I'm aware. These two points allow for
delaying when maybeCompress can be called, removing the need for the loop I
previously added to calculate the section size, and therefore the race
condition. Furthermore, by delaying, we fix the issues of relocations getting
incorrect symbol values, because they have now all been finalized.
llvm-svn: 321986
Fangrui Song