// Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. // Package elfexec provides utility routines to examine ELF binaries. package elfexec import ( "bufio" "debug/elf" "encoding/binary" "fmt" "io" ) const ( maxNoteSize = 1 << 20 // in bytes noteTypeGNUBuildID = 3 ) // elfNote is the payload of a Note Section in an ELF file. type elfNote struct { Name string // Contents of the "name" field, omitting the trailing zero byte. Desc []byte // Contents of the "desc" field. Type uint32 // Contents of the "type" field. } // parseNotes returns the notes from a SHT_NOTE section or PT_NOTE segment. func parseNotes(reader io.Reader, alignment int, order binary.ByteOrder) ([]elfNote, error) { r := bufio.NewReader(reader) // padding returns the number of bytes required to pad the given size to an // alignment boundary. padding := func(size int) int { return ((size + (alignment - 1)) &^ (alignment - 1)) - size } var notes []elfNote for { noteHeader := make([]byte, 12) // 3 4-byte words if _, err := io.ReadFull(r, noteHeader); err == io.EOF { break } else if err != nil { return nil, err } namesz := order.Uint32(noteHeader[0:4]) descsz := order.Uint32(noteHeader[4:8]) typ := order.Uint32(noteHeader[8:12]) if uint64(namesz) > uint64(maxNoteSize) { return nil, fmt.Errorf("note name too long (%d bytes)", namesz) } var name string if namesz > 0 { // Documentation differs as to whether namesz is meant to include the // trailing zero, but everyone agrees that name is null-terminated. // So we'll just determine the actual length after the fact. var err error name, err = r.ReadString('\x00') if err == io.EOF { return nil, fmt.Errorf("missing note name (want %d bytes)", namesz) } else if err != nil { return nil, err } namesz = uint32(len(name)) name = name[:len(name)-1] } // Drop padding bytes until the desc field. for n := padding(len(noteHeader) + int(namesz)); n > 0; n-- { if _, err := r.ReadByte(); err == io.EOF { return nil, fmt.Errorf( "missing %d bytes of padding after note name", n) } else if err != nil { return nil, err } } if uint64(descsz) > uint64(maxNoteSize) { return nil, fmt.Errorf("note desc too long (%d bytes)", descsz) } desc := make([]byte, int(descsz)) if _, err := io.ReadFull(r, desc); err == io.EOF { return nil, fmt.Errorf("missing desc (want %d bytes)", len(desc)) } else if err != nil { return nil, err } notes = append(notes, elfNote{Name: name, Desc: desc, Type: typ}) // Drop padding bytes until the next note or the end of the section, // whichever comes first. for n := padding(len(desc)); n > 0; n-- { if _, err := r.ReadByte(); err == io.EOF { // We hit the end of the section before an alignment boundary. // This can happen if this section is at the end of the file or the next // section has a smaller alignment requirement. break } else if err != nil { return nil, err } } } return notes, nil } // GetBuildID returns the GNU build-ID for an ELF binary. // // If no build-ID was found but the binary was read without error, it returns // (nil, nil). func GetBuildID(f *elf.File) ([]byte, error) { findBuildID := func(notes []elfNote) ([]byte, error) { var buildID []byte for _, note := range notes { if note.Name == "GNU" && note.Type == noteTypeGNUBuildID { if buildID == nil { buildID = note.Desc } else { return nil, fmt.Errorf("multiple build ids found, don't know which to use") } } } return buildID, nil } for _, p := range f.Progs { if p.Type != elf.PT_NOTE { continue } notes, err := parseNotes(p.Open(), int(p.Align), f.ByteOrder) if err != nil { return nil, err } if b, err := findBuildID(notes); b != nil || err != nil { return b, err } } for _, s := range f.Sections { if s.Type != elf.SHT_NOTE { continue } notes, err := parseNotes(s.Open(), int(s.Addralign), f.ByteOrder) if err != nil { return nil, err } if b, err := findBuildID(notes); b != nil || err != nil { return b, err } } return nil, nil } // kernelBase calculates the base for kernel mappings, which usually require // special handling. For kernel mappings, tools (like perf) use the address of // the kernel relocation symbol (_text or _stext) as the mmap start. Additionally, // for obfuscation, ChromeOS profiles have the kernel image remapped to the 0-th page. func kernelBase(loadSegment *elf.ProgHeader, stextOffset *uint64, start, limit, offset uint64) (uint64, bool) { const ( // PAGE_OFFSET for PowerPC64, see arch/powerpc/Kconfig in the kernel sources. pageOffsetPpc64 = 0xc000000000000000 pageSize = 4096 ) if loadSegment.Vaddr == start-offset { return offset, true } if start == 0 && limit != 0 && stextOffset != nil { // ChromeOS remaps its kernel to 0. Nothing else should come // down this path. Empirical values: // VADDR=0xffffffff80200000 // stextOffset=0xffffffff80200198 return start - *stextOffset, true } if start >= loadSegment.Vaddr && limit > start && (offset == 0 || offset == pageOffsetPpc64 || offset == start) { // Some kernels look like: // VADDR=0xffffffff80200000 // stextOffset=0xffffffff80200198 // Start=0xffffffff83200000 // Limit=0xffffffff84200000 // Offset=0 (0xc000000000000000 for PowerPC64) (== Start for ASLR kernel) // So the base should be: if stextOffset != nil && (start%pageSize) == (*stextOffset%pageSize) { // perf uses the address of _stext as start. Some tools may // adjust for this before calling GetBase, in which case the page // alignment should be different from that of stextOffset. return start - *stextOffset, true } return start - loadSegment.Vaddr, true } if start%pageSize != 0 && stextOffset != nil && *stextOffset%pageSize == start%pageSize { // ChromeOS remaps its kernel to 0 + start%pageSize. Nothing // else should come down this path. Empirical values: // start=0x198 limit=0x2f9fffff offset=0 // VADDR=0xffffffff81000000 // stextOffset=0xffffffff81000198 return start - *stextOffset, true } return 0, false } // GetBase determines the base address to subtract from virtual // address to get symbol table address. For an executable, the base // is 0. Otherwise, it's a shared library, and the base is the // address where the mapping starts. The kernel needs special handling. func GetBase(fh *elf.FileHeader, loadSegment *elf.ProgHeader, stextOffset *uint64, start, limit, offset uint64) (uint64, error) { if start == 0 && offset == 0 && (limit == ^uint64(0) || limit == 0) { // Some tools may introduce a fake mapping that spans the entire // address space. Assume that the address has already been // adjusted, so no additional base adjustment is necessary. return 0, nil } switch fh.Type { case elf.ET_EXEC: if loadSegment == nil { // Assume fixed-address executable and so no adjustment. return 0, nil } if stextOffset == nil && start > 0 && start < 0x8000000000000000 { // A regular user-mode executable. Compute the base offset using same // arithmetics as in ET_DYN case below, see the explanation there. // Ideally, the condition would just be "stextOffset == nil" as that // represents the address of _stext symbol in the vmlinux image. Alas, // the caller may skip reading it from the binary (it's expensive to scan // all the symbols) and so it may be nil even for the kernel executable. // So additionally check that the start is within the user-mode half of // the 64-bit address space. return start - offset + loadSegment.Off - loadSegment.Vaddr, nil } // Various kernel heuristics and cases are handled separately. if base, match := kernelBase(loadSegment, stextOffset, start, limit, offset); match { return base, nil } // ChromeOS can remap its kernel to 0, and the caller might have not found // the _stext symbol. Split this case from kernelBase() above, since we don't // want to apply it to an ET_DYN user-mode executable. if start == 0 && limit != 0 && stextOffset == nil { return start - loadSegment.Vaddr, nil } return 0, fmt.Errorf("don't know how to handle EXEC segment: %v start=0x%x limit=0x%x offset=0x%x", *loadSegment, start, limit, offset) case elf.ET_REL: if offset != 0 { return 0, fmt.Errorf("don't know how to handle mapping.Offset") } return start, nil case elf.ET_DYN: // The process mapping information, start = start of virtual address range, // and offset = offset in the executable file of the start address, tells us // that a runtime virtual address x maps to a file offset // fx = x - start + offset. if loadSegment == nil { return start - offset, nil } // Kernels compiled as PIE can be ET_DYN as well. Use heuristic, similar to // the ET_EXEC case above. if base, match := kernelBase(loadSegment, stextOffset, start, limit, offset); match { return base, nil } // The program header, if not nil, indicates the offset in the file where // the executable segment is located (loadSegment.Off), and the base virtual // address where the first byte of the segment is loaded // (loadSegment.Vaddr). A file offset fx maps to a virtual (symbol) address // sx = fx - loadSegment.Off + loadSegment.Vaddr. // // Thus, a runtime virtual address x maps to a symbol address // sx = x - start + offset - loadSegment.Off + loadSegment.Vaddr. return start - offset + loadSegment.Off - loadSegment.Vaddr, nil } return 0, fmt.Errorf("don't know how to handle FileHeader.Type %v", fh.Type) } // FindTextProgHeader finds the program segment header containing the .text // section or nil if the segment cannot be found. func FindTextProgHeader(f *elf.File) *elf.ProgHeader { for _, s := range f.Sections { if s.Name == ".text" { // Find the LOAD segment containing the .text section. for _, p := range f.Progs { if p.Type == elf.PT_LOAD && p.Flags&elf.PF_X != 0 && s.Addr >= p.Vaddr && s.Addr < p.Vaddr+p.Memsz { return &p.ProgHeader } } } } return nil } // ProgramHeadersForMapping returns the program segment headers that overlap // the runtime mapping with file offset mapOff and memory size mapSz. We skip // over segments zero file size because their file offset values are unreliable. // Even if overlapping, a segment is not selected if its aligned file offset is // greater than the mapping file offset, or if the mapping includes the last // page of the segment, but not the full segment and the mapping includes // additional pages after the segment end. // The function returns a slice of pointers to the headers in the input // slice, which are valid only while phdrs is not modified or discarded. func ProgramHeadersForMapping(phdrs []elf.ProgHeader, mapOff, mapSz uint64) []*elf.ProgHeader { const ( // pageSize defines the virtual memory page size used by the loader. This // value is dependent on the memory management unit of the CPU. The page // size is 4KB virtually on all the architectures that we care about, so we // define this metric as a constant. If we encounter architectures where // page sie is not 4KB, we must try to guess the page size on the system // where the profile was collected, possibly using the architecture // specified in the ELF file header. pageSize = 4096 pageOffsetMask = pageSize - 1 ) mapLimit := mapOff + mapSz var headers []*elf.ProgHeader for i := range phdrs { p := &phdrs[i] // Skip over segments with zero file size. Their file offsets can have // arbitrary values, see b/195427553. if p.Filesz == 0 { continue } segLimit := p.Off + p.Memsz // The segment must overlap the mapping. if p.Type == elf.PT_LOAD && mapOff < segLimit && p.Off < mapLimit { // If the mapping offset is strictly less than the page aligned segment // offset, then this mapping comes from a different segment, fixes // b/179920361. alignedSegOffset := uint64(0) if p.Off > (p.Vaddr & pageOffsetMask) { alignedSegOffset = p.Off - (p.Vaddr & pageOffsetMask) } if mapOff < alignedSegOffset { continue } // If the mapping starts in the middle of the segment, it covers less than // one page of the segment, and it extends at least one page past the // segment, then this mapping comes from a different segment. if mapOff > p.Off && (segLimit < mapOff+pageSize) && (mapLimit >= segLimit+pageSize) { continue } headers = append(headers, p) } } return headers } // HeaderForFileOffset attempts to identify a unique program header that // includes the given file offset. It returns an error if it cannot identify a // unique header. func HeaderForFileOffset(headers []*elf.ProgHeader, fileOffset uint64) (*elf.ProgHeader, error) { var ph *elf.ProgHeader for _, h := range headers { if fileOffset >= h.Off && fileOffset < h.Off+h.Memsz { if ph != nil { // Assuming no other bugs, this can only happen if we have two or // more small program segments that fit on the same page, and a // segment other than the last one includes uninitialized data, or // if the debug binary used for symbolization is stripped of some // sections, so segment file sizes are smaller than memory sizes. return nil, fmt.Errorf("found second program header (%#v) that matches file offset %x, first program header is %#v. Is this a stripped binary, or does the first program segment contain uninitialized data?", *h, fileOffset, *ph) } ph = h } } if ph == nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("no program header matches file offset %x", fileOffset) } return ph, nil }