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[v3,17/19] elf: Add comments on how LD_AUDIT and LD_PRELOAD handle __libc_enable_secure

Message ID 20231106202552.3404059-18-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
State Accepted
Commit 780c33920281c5d5cc42a1e578bdc9218e675405
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Series Improve loader environment variable handling | expand

Commit Message

Adhemerval Zanella Nov. 6, 2023, 8:25 p.m. UTC 
To make explicit why __libc_enable_secure is not checked.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
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 elf/rtld.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/elf/rtld.c b/elf/rtld.c
index 638b019670..d1017ba9e9 100644
--- a/elf/rtld.c
+++ b/elf/rtld.c
@@ -2563,6 +2563,10 @@  process_envvars (struct dl_main_state *state)
 	      process_dl_debug (state, &envline[6]);
 	      break;
 	    }
+	  /* For __libc_enable_secure mode, audit pathnames containing slashes
+	     are ignored.  Also, shared audit objects are only loaded only from
+	     the standard search directories and only if they have set-user-ID
+	     mode bit enabled.  */
 	  if (memcmp (envline, "AUDIT", 5) == 0)
 	    audit_list_add_string (&state->audit_list, &envline[6]);
 	  break;
@@ -2576,7 +2580,10 @@  process_envvars (struct dl_main_state *state)
 	      break;
 	    }
 
-	  /* List of objects to be preloaded.  */
+	  /* For __libc_enable_secure mode, preload pathnames containing slashes
+	     are ignored.  Also, shared objects are only preloaded from the
+	     standard search directories and only if they have set-user-ID mode
+	     bit enabled.  */
 	  if (memcmp (envline, "PRELOAD", 7) == 0)
 	    {
 	      state->preloadlist = &envline[8];