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The GNU C Library provides various functions for querying information from the dynamic linker.
| MT-Safe | AS-Unsafe corrupt | AC-Unsafe corrupt | See POSIX Safety Concepts.
This function returns information about handle in the memory
location arg, based on request. The handle argument
must be a pointer returned by dlopen or dlmopen; it must
not have been closed by dlclose.
On success, dlinfo returns 0 for most request types; exceptions
are noted below. If there is an error, the function returns -1,
and dlerror can be used to obtain a corresponding error message.
The following operations are defined for use with request:
RTLD_DI_LINKMAP ¶The corresponding struct link_map pointer for handle is
written to *arg. The arg argument must be the
address of an object of type struct link_map *.
RTLD_DI_LMID ¶The namespace identifier of handle is written to
*arg. The arg argument must be the address of an
object of type Lmid_t.
RTLD_DI_ORIGIN ¶The value of the $ORIGIN dynamic string token for handle is
written to the character array starting at arg as a
null-terminated string.
This request type should not be used because it is prone to buffer overflows.
RTLD_DI_SERINFO ¶RTLD_DI_SERINFOSIZE ¶These requests can be used to obtain search path information for
handle. For both requests, arg must point to a
Dl_serinfo object. The RTLD_DI_SERINFOSIZE request must
be made first; it updates the dls_size and dls_cnt members
of the Dl_serinfo object. The caller should then allocate memory
to store at least dls_size bytes and pass that buffer to a
RTLD_DI_SERINFO request. This second request fills the
dls_serpath array. The number of array elements was returned in
the dls_cnt member in the initial RTLD_DI_SERINFOSIZE
request. The caller is responsible for freeing the allocated buffer.
This interface is prone to buffer overflows in multi-threaded processes
because the required size can change between the
RTLD_DI_SERINFOSIZE and RTLD_DI_SERINFO requests.
RTLD_DI_TLS_DATA ¶This request writes the address of the TLS block (in the current thread)
for the shared object identified by handle to *arg.
The argument arg must be the address of an object of type
void *. A null pointer is written if the object does not have
any associated TLS block.
RTLD_DI_TLS_MODID ¶This request writes the TLS module ID for the shared object handle
to *arg. The argument arg must be the address of an
object of type size_t. The module ID is zero if the object
does not have an associated TLS block.
RTLD_DI_PHDR ¶This request writes the address of the program header array to
*arg. The argument arg must be the address of an
object of type const ElfW(Phdr) * (that is,
const Elf32_Phdr * or const Elf64_Phdr *, as appropriate
for the current architecture). For this request, the value returned by
dlinfo is the number of program headers in the program header
array.
The dlinfo function is a GNU extension.
The remainder of this section documents the _dl_find_object
function and supporting types and constants.
This structure contains information about a main program or loaded
object. The _dl_find_object function uses it to return
result data to the caller.
unsigned long long int dlfo_flagsCurrently unused and always 0.
void *dlfo_map_startThe start address of the inspected mapping. This information comes from the program header, so it follows its convention, and the address is not necessarily page-aligned.
void *dlfo_map_endThe end address of the mapping.
struct link_map *dlf_link_mapThis member contains a pointer to the link map of the object.
struct link_map *dlf_link_mapThis member contains a pointer to the exception handling data of the
object. See DLFO_EH_SEGMENT_TYPE below.
This structure is a GNU extension.
On most targets, this macro is defined as 0. If it is defined to
1, struct dl_find_object contains an additional member
dlfo_eh_dbase of type void *. It is the base address for
DW_EH_PE_datarel DWARF encodings to this location.
This macro is a GNU extension.
On most targets, this macro is defined as 0. If it is defined to
1, struct dl_find_object contains an additional member
dlfo_eh_count of type int. It is the number of exception
handling entries in the EH frame segment identified by the
dlfo_eh_frame member.
This macro is a GNU extension.
On targets using DWARF-based exception unwinding, this macro expands to
PT_GNU_EH_FRAME. This indicates that dlfo_eh_frame in
struct dl_find_object points to the PT_GNU_EH_FRAME
segment of the object. On targets that use other unwinding formats, the
macro expands to the program header type for the unwinding data.
This macro is a GNU extension.
| MT-Safe | AS-Safe | AC-Safe | See POSIX Safety Concepts.
On success, this function returns 0 and writes about the object
surrounding the address to *result. On failure, -1 is
returned.
The address can be a code address or data address. On
architectures using function descriptors, no attempt is made to decode
the function descriptor. Depending on how these descriptors are
implemented, _dl_find_object may return the object that defines
the function descriptor (and not the object that contains the code
implementing the function), or fail to find any object at all.
On success address is greater than or equal to
result->dlfo_map_start and less than
result->dlfo_map_end, that is, the supplied code address is
located within the reported mapping.
This function returns a pointer to the unwinding information for the
object that contains the program code address in
result->dlfo_eh_frame. If the platform uses DWARF
unwinding information, this is the in-memory address of the
PT_GNU_EH_FRAME segment. See DLFO_EH_SEGMENT_TYPE above.
In case address resides in an object that lacks unwinding information,
the function still returns 0, but sets result->dlfo_eh_frame
to a null pointer.
_dl_find_object itself is thread-safe. However, if the
application invokes dlclose for the object that contains
address concurrently with _dl_find_object or after the call
returns, accessing the unwinding data for that object or the link map
(through result->dlfo_link_map) is not safe. Therefore, the
application needs to ensure by other means (e.g., by convention) that
address remains a valid code address while the unwinding
information is processed.
This function is a GNU extension.
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