Merge patch series "riscv: support ELF format binaries in nommu mode"

Greg Ungerer <gerg@kernel.org> says:

The following changes add the ability to run ELF format binaries when
running RISC-V in nommu mode. That support is actually part of the
ELF-FDPIC loader, so these changes are all about making that work on
RISC-V.

The first issue to deal with is making the ELF-FDPIC loader capable of
handling 64-bit ELF files. As coded right now it only supports 32-bit
ELF files.

Secondly some changes are required to enable and compile the ELF-FDPIC
loader on RISC-V and to pass the ELF-FDPIC mapping addresses through to
user space when execing the new program.

These changes have not been used to run actual ELF-FDPIC binaries.
It is used to load and run normal ELF - compiled -pie format. Though the
underlying changes are expected to work with full ELF-FDPIC binaries if
or when that is supported on RISC-V in gcc.

To avoid needing changes to the C-library (tested with uClibc-ng
currently) there is a simple runtime dynamic loader (interpreter)
available to do the final relocations, https://github.com/gregungerer/uldso.
The nice thing about doing it this way is that the same program
binary can also be loaded with the usual ELF loader in MMU linux.

The motivation here is to provide an easy to use alternative to the
flat format binaries normally used for RISC-V nommu based systems.

* b4-shazam-merge:
  riscv: support the elf-fdpic binfmt loader
  binfmt_elf_fdpic: support 64-bit systems

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230711130754.481209-1-gerg@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>

2 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/elf-fdpic.h b/include/linux/elf-fdpic.h
index 3bea95a1af53..e533f4513194 100644
--- a/include/linux/elf-fdpic.h
+++ b/include/linux/elf-fdpic.h
@@ -10,13 +10,25 @@
 
 #include <uapi/linux/elf-fdpic.h>
 
+#if ELF_CLASS == ELFCLASS32
+#define Elf_Sword			Elf32_Sword
+#define elf_fdpic_loadseg		elf32_fdpic_loadseg
+#define elf_fdpic_loadmap		elf32_fdpic_loadmap
+#define ELF_FDPIC_LOADMAP_VERSION	ELF32_FDPIC_LOADMAP_VERSION
+#else
+#define Elf_Sword			Elf64_Sxword
+#define elf_fdpic_loadmap		elf64_fdpic_loadmap
+#define elf_fdpic_loadseg		elf64_fdpic_loadseg
+#define ELF_FDPIC_LOADMAP_VERSION	ELF64_FDPIC_LOADMAP_VERSION
+#endif
+
 /*
  * binfmt binary parameters structure
  */
 struct elf_fdpic_params {
 	struct elfhdr			hdr;		/* ref copy of ELF header */
 	struct elf_phdr			*phdrs;		/* ref copy of PT_PHDR table */
-	struct elf32_fdpic_loadmap	*loadmap;	/* loadmap to be passed to userspace */
+	struct elf_fdpic_loadmap	*loadmap;	/* loadmap to be passed to userspace */
 	unsigned long			elfhdr_addr;	/* mapped ELF header user address */
 	unsigned long			ph_addr;	/* mapped PT_PHDR user address */
 	unsigned long			map_addr;	/* mapped loadmap user address */
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/elf-fdpic.h b/include/uapi/linux/elf-fdpic.h
index 4fcc6cfebe18..ec23f0871129 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/elf-fdpic.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/elf-fdpic.h
@@ -32,4 +32,19 @@ struct elf32_fdpic_loadmap {
 
 #define ELF32_FDPIC_LOADMAP_VERSION	0x0000
 
+/* segment mappings for ELF FDPIC libraries/executables/interpreters */
+struct elf64_fdpic_loadseg {
+	Elf64_Addr	addr;		/* core address to which mapped */
+	Elf64_Addr	p_vaddr;	/* VMA recorded in file */
+	Elf64_Word	p_memsz;	/* allocation size recorded in file */
+};
+
+struct elf64_fdpic_loadmap {
+	Elf64_Half	version;	/* version of these structures, just in case... */
+	Elf64_Half	nsegs;		/* number of segments */
+	struct elf64_fdpic_loadseg segs[];
+};
+
+#define ELF64_FDPIC_LOADMAP_VERSION	0x0000
+
 #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_ELF_FDPIC_H */