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