1 // Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
11 // This is a wrapper to run position independent executables on Android ICS,
12 // where the linker doesn't support PIE. This requires the PIE binaries to be
13 // built with CFLAGS +=-fvisibility=default -fPIE, and LDFLAGS += -rdynamic -pie
14 // such that the main() symbol remains exported and can be dlsym-ed.
16 #define ERR_PREFIX "[PIE Loader] "
18 typedef int (*main_t
)(int, char**);
21 int main(int argc
, char** argv
) {
23 printf("Usage: %s path_to_pie_executable [args]\n", argv
[0]);
27 // Shift left the argv[]. argv is what /proc/PID/cmdline prints out. In turn
28 // cmdline is what Android "ps" prints out. In turn "ps" is what many scripts
29 // look for to decide which processes to kill / killall.
31 char* next_argv_start
= argv
[0];
32 for (i
= 1; i
< argc
; ++i
) {
33 const size_t argv_len
= strlen(argv
[i
]) + 1;
34 memcpy(argv
[i
- 1], argv
[i
], argv_len
);
35 next_argv_start
+= argv_len
;
36 argv
[i
] = next_argv_start
;
38 argv
[argc
- 1] = NULL
; // The last argv must be a NULL ptr.
40 // Set also the proc name accordingly (/proc/PID/comm).
41 prctl(PR_SET_NAME
, (long) argv
[0]);
43 // dlopen should not fail, unless:
44 // - The target binary does not exists:
45 // - The dependent .so libs cannot be loaded.
46 // In both cases, just bail out with an explicit error message.
47 void* handle
= dlopen(argv
[0], RTLD_NOW
);
49 printf(ERR_PREFIX
"dlopen() failed: %s.\n", dlerror());
53 main_t pie_main
= (main_t
) dlsym(handle
, "main");
55 return pie_main(argc
- 1, argv
);
58 // If we reached this point dlsym failed, very likely because the target
59 // binary has not been compiled with the proper CFLAGS / LDFLAGS.
60 // At this point the most sensible thing to do is running that normally
61 // via exec and hope that the target binary wasn't a PIE.
64 // exevc is supposed to never return, unless it fails.
65 printf(ERR_PREFIX
"Both dlsym() and the execv() fallback failed.\n");