Re: Emulating i486 on i386 (was: TSCs are a no-no on i386)

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Thu, 2003-07-31 12:51:09 +0100, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
wrote in message <1059652268.16608.8.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>:
> On Iau, 2003-07-31 at 12:38, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > Thanks for that. In the meantime, I've started to give a try to the
> > userspace version (using a LD_PRELOAD lib). My current Problem:
> > 
> > amtus:~/sigill_catcher# LD_PRELOAD=./libsigill.so ls
> > sigill.c:_init():69: sigill started, sigaction() = 0
> > build.sh  intercept.h  libsigill.so  run.sh  sigill.c  sigill.o
> > amtus:~/sigill_catcher# LD_PRELOAD=./libsigill.so apt-get update
> > Illegal instruction
> > 
> > See? It's loaded at the "ls" call, but it seems to be not loaded for
> > apt-get.
> 
> Remember you need to overload signal setting functions like sigaction.
> My guess is apt decided to disable your signal and you didnt stop it

I thought about that. Though, strace shows this is straight after ldso
mapped all libs. So apt-get's main() didn't yet start.

amtus:~/sigill_catcher# cat run.sh 
#!/bin/sh

LD_PRELOAD=./libsigill.so apt-get update

amtus:~/sigill_catcher# strace -o xxx -f -ff ./run.sh 
Process 681 attached (waiting for parent)
Process 681 resumed (parent 680 ready)
Process 680 suspended
Process 680 resumed
Process 681 detached
./run.sh: line 3:   681 Illegal instruction LD_PRELOAD=./libsigill.so apt-get update
amtus:~/sigill_catcher# grep -i sig xx* | grep -i ILL
xxx:stat64("/root/sigill_catcher", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
xxx:wait4(-1, [WIFSIGNALED(s) && WTERMSIG(s) == SIGILL], 0, NULL) = 681
xxx.681:open("./libsigill.so", O_RDONLY)        = 3
xxx.681:getcwd("/root/sigill_catcher", 128)     = 21
xxx.681:--- SIGILL (Illegal instruction) @ 0 (0) ---

So my lib gets loaded, but it's _init() function seems to be called too
late (in prior, some parts of libstdc++5 decided to commit suicide).

Looking at the strace, libsigill is the loaded as the very first action.
Then, all the other libs are mapped. It seems that _init()ing them
happens somewhat in reverse order or something like that... I'm a but
hosed in that case:)

MfG, JBG

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