linker-diff 0.9.0

Diffs and validates ELF binaries
Documentation
use crate::Binary;
use crate::Result;
use crate::asm_diff::BasicValueKind;
use anyhow::Context;
use anyhow::bail;
use linker_utils::elf::BitMask;
use linker_utils::elf::DynamicRelocationKind;
use linker_utils::elf::RelocationKindInfo;
use linker_utils::relaxation::RelocationModifier;
use object::LittleEndian;
use object::read::elf::FileHeader as _;
use std::fmt::Debug;
use std::fmt::Display;
use std::ops::Range;

#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub(crate) enum ArchKind {
    X86_64,
    Aarch64,
    RISCV64,
    LoongArch64,
}

/// Provides architecture-specific functionality needed by linker-diff.
pub(crate) trait Arch: Clone + Copy + Eq + PartialEq + Debug {
    /// The type of relocations on this architecture.
    type RType: RType;

    /// A type representing relaxations on this architecture.
    type RelaxationKind: RelaxationKind;

    /// A type representing a decoded instruction on this architecture.
    type RawInstruction: Clone;

    /// The maximum number of bytes prior to a relocation offset that a relaxation might modify.
    const MAX_RELAX_MODIFY_BEFORE: u64;

    /// The maximum number of bytes after a relocation offset that a relaxation might modify.
    const MAX_RELAX_MODIFY_AFTER: u64;

    /// Calls `cb` with each relaxation that we think is possible for the supplied relocation type
    /// and section kind.
    fn possible_relaxations_do(
        r_type: Self::RType,
        section_kind: object::SectionKind,
        cb: impl FnMut(Relaxation<Self>),
    );

    /// Returns a mask that can be used to identify the supplied relaxation.
    fn relaxation_mask(relaxation: Relaxation<Self>, relocation_offset: usize) -> RelaxationMask {
        let byte_range = Self::relaxation_byte_range(relaxation);

        let mut mask = RelaxationMask {
            offset_shift: byte_range.offset_shift,
            bitmask: Vec::new(),
        };

        if let Some(info) = relaxation.new_r_type.opt_relocation_info() {
            match info.size {
                linker_utils::elf::RelocationSize::ByteSize(num_bytes) => {
                    let mask_len = (relocation_offset + num_bytes).max(byte_range.num_bytes);

                    mask.bitmask.resize(mask_len, 0xff);

                    for b in &mut mask.bitmask[relocation_offset..relocation_offset + num_bytes] {
                        *b = 0;
                    }
                }
                linker_utils::elf::RelocationSize::BitMasking(BitMask { range, instruction }) => {
                    mask.bitmask = Vec::from(instruction.bit_mask(range));
                }
            }
        }

        mask
    }

    fn relaxation_byte_range(relaxation: Relaxation<Self>) -> RelaxationByteRange;

    /// Applies the supplied relaxation to `section_bytes`, possibly also updating
    /// `offset_in_section` and `addend` according to the relaxation kind.
    fn apply_relaxation(
        relaxation_kind: Self::RelaxationKind,
        section_bytes: &mut [u8],
        offset_in_section: &mut u64,
        addend: &mut i64,
    );

    /// Returns whether the next relocation should be skipped based on a relaxation applied to the
    /// current relocation.
    fn next_relocation_modifier(relaxation_kind: Self::RelaxationKind) -> RelocationModifier;

    /// Returns a human readable form of the supplied instruction.
    fn instruction_to_string(instruction: &Instruction<Self>) -> String;

    /// Decode instructions that are in or overlap with the supplied range. The start of `range` may
    /// be part way through an instruction. For variable length instructions, implementations will
    /// want to start decoding from the start of the function. For fixed size instructions, it
    /// should be possible to start at or just prior to the start of `range`.
    fn decode_instructions_in_range(
        section_bytes: &[u8],
        section_address: u64,
        function_offset_in_section: u64,
        range: Range<u64>,
    ) -> Vec<Instruction<'_, Self>>;

    fn decode_plt_entry(plt_entry: &[u8], plt_base: u64, plt_offset: u64) -> Option<PltEntry>;

    /// If `bytes` at the given `address` form a range-extension thunk, returns the absolute target
    /// address. The default implementation returns `None` (no thunks on this architecture).
    fn decode_thunk(bytes: &[u8], address: u64) -> Option<u64> {
        let _ = (bytes, address);
        None
    }

    /// Returns whether the supplied relocations should be chained together. `chain_prefix` will
    /// always be of length at least 2.
    fn should_chain_relocations(chain_prefix: &[Self::RType]) -> bool;

    /// Returns a bitmask that should be applied to the relative-to address for a relocation.
    fn get_relocation_base_mask(relocation_info: &RelocationKindInfo) -> u64;

    /// Returns the offset from where a relocation occurs to the address to which a PC-relative
    /// instruction will be relative. In theory this would depend on the instruction, not just the
    /// relocation, however we want to avoid decoding the instruction, so we use the relocation as a
    /// good-enough approximation.
    fn relocation_to_pc_offset(relocation_info: &RelocationKindInfo) -> u64;

    /// Returns whether the supplied chain of relocation types represents a complete chain of
    /// relocations. Partial chains can occur where relocations for different symbols are
    /// interleaved by the compiler, presumably in order to give better performance. Unfortunately
    /// we can't properly process partial chains. We can still resolve the relaxations for the
    /// relocations in a partial chain, but we cannot resolve what we're pointing at, since we have
    /// incomplete information.
    ///
    /// This is somewhat of a design flaw with the whole idea of chaining relocations. Possibly we
    /// should redesign this aspect of linker-diff at some stage to work differently. We could get
    /// rid of chains and just look at relocations individually. Doing so, we can then build up
    /// information a bit at a time about the referent. For example one relocation might tell us
    /// that the address of foo is 0x12???, then a later relocation might tell us the low bits, so
    /// that we know the full address is 0x12345.
    fn is_complete_chain(chain: impl Iterator<Item = Self::RType>) -> bool;

    /// Returns a `BasicValueKind` type that corresponds to a `RelocationKind::TpOff` relocation.
    fn get_basic_value_for_tp_offset() -> BasicValueKind;
}

pub(crate) trait RType: Copy + Debug + Display + Eq + PartialEq {
    fn from_raw(raw: u32) -> Self;

    fn from_dynamic_relocation_kind(kind: DynamicRelocationKind) -> Self;

    fn relocation_info(self) -> Result<RelocationKindInfo> {
        self.opt_relocation_info()
            .with_context(|| format!("Unknown relocation type {self}"))
    }

    fn opt_relocation_info(self) -> Option<RelocationKindInfo>;

    fn dynamic_relocation_kind(self) -> Option<DynamicRelocationKind>;

    fn should_ignore_when_computing_referent(self) -> bool {
        false
    }
}

pub(crate) trait RelaxationKind: Copy + Clone + Debug + Eq + PartialEq {
    /// Returns whether this relaxation does nothing.
    fn is_no_op(self) -> bool;

    /// Returns whether this relaxation replaces an instruction with a nop.
    fn is_replace_with_no_op(self) -> bool;
}

#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub(crate) struct Relaxation<A: Arch> {
    pub(crate) relaxation_kind: A::RelaxationKind,
    pub(crate) new_r_type: A::RType,

    /// A second relocation type that is also consistent with the same relaxation. The main
    /// use-case for this is calling a function directly, or calling a function via the PLT.
    /// When just looking at the instructions, we cannot tell these two apart.
    pub(crate) alt_r_type: Option<A::RType>,
}

/// The range of bytes to which a relaxation applies.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
pub(crate) struct RelaxationByteRange {
    /// Number of bytes prior to the offset of the original relocation at which the bitmask starts.
    pub(crate) offset_shift: u64,

    /// Number of bytes covered by this relaxation, including bytes in which the relocation will be
    /// written.
    pub(crate) num_bytes: usize,
}

impl RelaxationByteRange {
    pub(crate) fn new(offset_shift: u64, num_bytes: usize) -> Self {
        Self {
            offset_shift,
            num_bytes,
        }
    }
}

/// A bitmask used for comparing the bytes produced by a relaxation with the bytes in the actual
/// file.
#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub(crate) struct RelaxationMask {
    /// Number of bytes prior to the offset of the original relocation at which the bitmask starts.
    pub(crate) offset_shift: u64,

    /// Which bits should be considered part of the instructions modified by a particular
    /// relaxation. e.g. a byte of 0xff would indicate that all bits of the corresponding byte
    /// should be treated as part of the instruction. A 0 byte would indicate that the
    /// corresponding byte should not be compared - i.e. if it's part of the offset written by
    /// the new relocation. Note that bytes that are part of the instruction should still be
    /// compared even if they're not written by the relocation, since the fact that the byte
    /// wasn't changed is important in identifying a particular relaxation.
    ///
    /// Example: 48 8d 3d 00 00 00 00    lea    0x0(%rip),%rdi
    ///                   ^ The relocation points here
    ///
    /// The offset_shift would be -3 so as to point to the start of the instruction (0x48).
    ///
    /// The mask would be [0xff, 0xff, 0xff] since the first three bytes of the instruction should
    /// be compared in their entirety.
    pub(crate) bitmask: Vec<u8>,
}

impl RelaxationMask {
    /// Returns whether `a` == `b`, ignoring bits where the corresponding bit in our mask is 0.
    pub(crate) fn matches(&self, a: &[u8], b: &[u8]) -> bool {
        assert_eq!(a.len(), b.len());

        self.bitmask
            .iter()
            .zip(a)
            .zip(b)
            .all(|((mask, value_a), value_b)| (*value_a & mask) == (*value_b & mask))
    }

    pub(crate) fn mask_value(&self, value: &[u8]) -> Vec<u8> {
        value
            .iter()
            .zip(&self.bitmask)
            .map(|(b1, b2)| b1 & b2)
            .collect()
    }
}

#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
pub(crate) struct Instruction<'data, A: Arch> {
    pub(crate) raw_instruction: A::RawInstruction,

    /// The address of the instruction.
    pub(crate) address: u64,

    pub(crate) bytes: &'data [u8],
}

impl<A: Arch> Instruction<'_, A> {
    pub(crate) fn address(&self) -> u64 {
        self.address
    }
}

pub(crate) enum PltEntry {
    /// The parameter is an address (most likely of a GOT entry) that will be dereferenced by the
    /// PLT entry then jumped to.
    DerefJmp(u64),

    /// The parameter is an index into .rela.plt.
    JumpSlot(u32),
}

impl ArchKind {
    pub(crate) fn from_objects(bins: &[Binary]) -> Result<ArchKind> {
        match bins[0].elf_file.elf_header().e_machine(LittleEndian) {
            object::elf::EM_X86_64 => Ok(ArchKind::X86_64),
            object::elf::EM_AARCH64 => Ok(ArchKind::Aarch64),
            object::elf::EM_RISCV => Ok(ArchKind::RISCV64),
            object::elf::EM_LOONGARCH => Ok(ArchKind::LoongArch64),
            other => bail!("Unsupported object architecture {other}",),
        }
    }
}