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ELF: document some de-facto PT_* ABI quirks
Turns out rules about PT_INTERP, PT_GNU_STACK and PT_GNU_PROPERTY program headers are slightly different. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/88d3f1bb-f4e0-4c40-9304-3843513a1262@p183 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 | ||
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Linux-specific ELF idiosyncrasies | ||
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Definitions | ||
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"First" program header is the one with the smallest offset in the file: | ||
e_phoff. | ||
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"Last" program header is the one with the biggest offset in the file: | ||
e_phoff + (e_phnum - 1) * sizeof(Elf_Phdr). | ||
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PT_INTERP | ||
========= | ||
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First PT_INTERP program header is used to locate the filename of ELF | ||
interpreter. Other PT_INTERP headers are ignored (since Linux 2.4.11). | ||
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PT_GNU_STACK | ||
============ | ||
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Last PT_GNU_STACK program header defines userspace stack executability | ||
(since Linux 2.6.6). Other PT_GNU_STACK headers are ignored. | ||
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PT_GNU_PROPERTY | ||
=============== | ||
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ELF interpreter's last PT_GNU_PROPERTY program header is used (since | ||
Linux 5.8). If interpreter doesn't have one, then the last PT_GNU_PROPERTY | ||
program header of an executable is used. Other PT_GNU_PROPERTY headers | ||
are ignored. |
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