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<p class="MsoNormal">I looked into this further. ld64 has a macho_nlist abstraction over the various underlying nlist structures [1]. On x86-64, the P::getP referenced in n_value will resolve to [2], which in turn goes to [3], which calls OSReadLittleInt64.
On a little endian machine, OSReadLittleEndian just calls _OSReadInt64 [4], which in turn does a pointer arithmetic and cast and then dereferences the pointer [5]. As far as I can see, this will invoke UB for an unaligned int64, unless ld64 is built against
a different version of OSReadLittleEndian, or unless I’m missing something.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[1] <a href="https://github.com/apple-opensource/ld64/blob/fd3feabb0a1eb18ab5d7910f3c3a5eed99cef6ab/src/abstraction/MachOFileAbstraction.hpp#L1283-L1304">
https://github.com/apple-opensource/ld64/blob/fd3feabb0a1eb18ab5d7910f3c3a5eed99cef6ab/src/abstraction/MachOFileAbstraction.hpp#L1283-L1304</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[2] <a href="https://github.com/apple-opensource/ld64/blob/fd3feabb0a1eb18ab5d7910f3c3a5eed99cef6ab/src/abstraction/FileAbstraction.hpp#L137">
https://github.com/apple-opensource/ld64/blob/fd3feabb0a1eb18ab5d7910f3c3a5eed99cef6ab/src/abstraction/FileAbstraction.hpp#L137</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[3] <a href="https://github.com/apple-opensource/ld64/blob/fd3feabb0a1eb18ab5d7910f3c3a5eed99cef6ab/src/abstraction/FileAbstraction.hpp#L96">
https://github.com/apple-opensource/ld64/blob/fd3feabb0a1eb18ab5d7910f3c3a5eed99cef6ab/src/abstraction/FileAbstraction.hpp#L96</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[4] <a href="https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/a449c6a3b8014d9406c2ddbdc81795da24aa7443/libkern/libkern/OSByteOrder.h#L246">
https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/a449c6a3b8014d9406c2ddbdc81795da24aa7443/libkern/libkern/OSByteOrder.h#L246</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/a449c6a3b8014d9406c2ddbdc81795da24aa7443/libkern/libkern/OSByteOrder.h#L109-L117</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">David Blaikie <dblaikie@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 11:25 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Shoaib Meenai <smeenai@fb.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" <llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [llvm-dev] Emitting aligned nlist_64 structures for Mach-O in MC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I'd have figured if ld64 is able to handle this correctly (are you sure ld64 has UB in this situation when the lists are underaligned? perhaps it has utilities for doing underaligned reads, etc?) it's probably important
for lld to handle them too - old object files in archives, things built by not-llvm, etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 11:01 AM Shoaib Meenai via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">As part of our work on LLD for Mach-O, we’ve observed that the object files produced by LLVM don’t always have aligned nlist_64 entries. For context, nlist_64 is the 64-bit symbol table entry structure for Mach-O,
and the symbol table is an array of nlist_64 entries. nlist_64 has an 8 byte member, so it should be 8-byte aligned, but we’ve seen object files where the symbol table only has a 4-byte alignment.<br>
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I don't know if Mach-O mandates an alignment for the symbol table (I haven't found any such requirements in the documentation), but it would be convenient for MC to emit an 8-byte aligned symbol table. We parse an input file in LLD by memory mapping it and
using casts to access the various structures. When the symbol table isn't 8-byte aligned, we're accessing the nlist_64 entries in an unaligned fashion, which makes UBSAN (rightly) unhappy. As far as I can see, ld64 also does pointer arithmetic and casting
to parse the symbol table, so it would run into the same issue. Does anyone see any problems with making MC always emit an 8-byte aligned symbol table for 64-bit Mach-O files, to avoid this issue?<br>
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Of course, we should still handle object files we see in the wild without the 8-byte alignment. From what I understand, the blessed way to handle a potentially unaligned access is with a memcpy, and the compiler should be able to optimize out the memcpy on
architectures that support unaligned accesses. A coworker is implementing that approach in
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__reviews.llvm.org_D80414&d=DwMFaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=o3kDXzdBUE3ljQXKeTWOMw&m=Ux8t6Su4JVUd45UmVgQRCU2YZHX4HTWB1742jKxnhJo&s=Lg9_RU6QSNSHF88ry4t5DTpADTj7oQ_ur3L5j-mCIf8&e=" target="_blank">
https://reviews.llvm.org/D80414</a>, but before we go ahead with that, I wanted to confirm (a) how reliable the memcpy optimization is across all our supported compilers (in particular, I've seen MSVC struggle with this optimization in the past), because we
really don't want to be paying the cost of an actual memcpy in this codepath, and (b) if there's other good ways to handle this that we could explore.<br>
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