1/* Interface for libelf.
2 Copyright (C) 1998-2010, 2015 Red Hat, Inc.
3 This file is part of elfutils.
4
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27 not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
28
29#ifndef _LIBELF_H
30#define _LIBELF_H 1
31
32#include <stdint.h>
33#include <sys/types.h>
34
35/* Get the ELF types. */
36#include <elf.h>
37
38#ifndef SHF_COMPRESSED
39 /* Older glibc elf.h might not yet define the ELF compression types. */
40 #define SHF_COMPRESSED (1 << 11) /* Section with compressed data. */
41
42 /* Section compression header. Used when SHF_COMPRESSED is set. */
43
44 typedef struct
45 {
46 Elf32_Word ch_type; /* Compression format. */
47 Elf32_Word ch_size; /* Uncompressed data size. */
48 Elf32_Word ch_addralign; /* Uncompressed data alignment. */
49 } Elf32_Chdr;
50
51 typedef struct
52 {
53 Elf64_Word ch_type; /* Compression format. */
54 Elf64_Word ch_reserved;
55 Elf64_Xword ch_size; /* Uncompressed data size. */
56 Elf64_Xword ch_addralign; /* Uncompressed data alignment. */
57 } Elf64_Chdr;
58
59 /* Legal values for ch_type (compression algorithm). */
60 #define ELFCOMPRESS_ZLIB 1 /* ZLIB/DEFLATE algorithm. */
61 #define ELFCOMPRESS_LOOS 0x60000000 /* Start of OS-specific. */
62 #define ELFCOMPRESS_HIOS 0x6fffffff /* End of OS-specific. */
63 #define ELFCOMPRESS_LOPROC 0x70000000 /* Start of processor-specific. */
64 #define ELFCOMPRESS_HIPROC 0x7fffffff /* End of processor-specific. */
65#endif
66
67#if __GNUC__ > 3 || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 3)
68# define __nonnull_attribute__(...) __attribute__ ((__nonnull__ (__VA_ARGS__)))
69# define __deprecated_attribute__ __attribute__ ((__deprecated__))
70# define __pure_attribute__ __attribute__ ((__pure__))
71# define __const_attribute__ __attribute__ ((__const__))
72#else
73# define __nonnull_attribute__(...)
74# define __deprecated_attribute__
75# define __pure_attribute__
76# define __const_attribute__
77#endif
78
79#if __GNUC__ < 4
80#define __noreturn_attribute__
81#else
82#define __noreturn_attribute__ __attribute__ ((noreturn))
83#endif
84
85#ifdef __GNUC_STDC_INLINE__
86# define __libdw_extern_inline extern __inline __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__))
87#else
88# define __libdw_extern_inline extern __inline
89#endif
90
91/* Known translation types. */
92typedef enum
93{
94 ELF_T_BYTE, /* unsigned char */
95 ELF_T_ADDR, /* Elf32_Addr, Elf64_Addr, ... */
96 ELF_T_DYN, /* Dynamic section record. */
97 ELF_T_EHDR, /* ELF header. */
98 ELF_T_HALF, /* Elf32_Half, Elf64_Half, ... */
99 ELF_T_OFF, /* Elf32_Off, Elf64_Off, ... */
100 ELF_T_PHDR, /* Program header. */
101 ELF_T_RELA, /* Relocation entry with addend. */
102 ELF_T_REL, /* Relocation entry. */
103 ELF_T_SHDR, /* Section header. */
104 ELF_T_SWORD, /* Elf32_Sword, Elf64_Sword, ... */
105 ELF_T_SYM, /* Symbol record. */
106 ELF_T_WORD, /* Elf32_Word, Elf64_Word, ... */
107 ELF_T_XWORD, /* Elf32_Xword, Elf64_Xword, ... */
108 ELF_T_SXWORD, /* Elf32_Sxword, Elf64_Sxword, ... */
109 ELF_T_VDEF, /* Elf32_Verdef, Elf64_Verdef, ... */
110 ELF_T_VDAUX, /* Elf32_Verdaux, Elf64_Verdaux, ... */
111 ELF_T_VNEED, /* Elf32_Verneed, Elf64_Verneed, ... */
112 ELF_T_VNAUX, /* Elf32_Vernaux, Elf64_Vernaux, ... */
113 ELF_T_NHDR, /* Elf32_Nhdr, Elf64_Nhdr, ... */
114 ELF_T_SYMINFO, /* Elf32_Syminfo, Elf64_Syminfo, ... */
115 ELF_T_MOVE, /* Elf32_Move, Elf64_Move, ... */
116 ELF_T_LIB, /* Elf32_Lib, Elf64_Lib, ... */
117 ELF_T_GNUHASH, /* GNU-style hash section. */
118 ELF_T_AUXV, /* Elf32_auxv_t, Elf64_auxv_t, ... */
119 ELF_T_CHDR, /* Compressed, Elf32_Chdr, Elf64_Chdr, ... */
120 ELF_T_NHDR8, /* Special GNU Properties note. Same as Nhdr,
121 except padding. */
122 /* Keep this the last entry. */
123 ELF_T_NUM
124} Elf_Type;
125
126/* Descriptor for data to be converted to or from memory format. */
127typedef struct
128{
129 void *d_buf; /* Pointer to the actual data. */
130 Elf_Type d_type; /* Type of this piece of data. */
131 unsigned int d_version; /* ELF version. */
132 size_t d_size; /* Size in bytes. */
133 int64_t d_off; /* Offset into section. */
134 size_t d_align; /* Alignment in section. */
135} Elf_Data;
136
137
138/* Commands for `...'. */
139typedef enum
140{
141 ELF_C_NULL, /* Nothing, terminate, or compute only. */
142 ELF_C_READ, /* Read .. */
143 ELF_C_RDWR, /* Read and write .. */
144 ELF_C_WRITE, /* Write .. */
145 ELF_C_CLR, /* Clear flag. */
146 ELF_C_SET, /* Set flag. */
147 ELF_C_FDDONE, /* Signal that file descriptor will not be
148 used anymore. */
149 ELF_C_FDREAD, /* Read rest of data so that file descriptor
150 is not used anymore. */
151 /* The following are extensions. */
152 ELF_C_READ_MMAP, /* Read, but mmap the file if possible. */
153 ELF_C_RDWR_MMAP, /* Read and write, with mmap. */
154 ELF_C_WRITE_MMAP, /* Write, with mmap. */
155 ELF_C_READ_MMAP_PRIVATE, /* Read, but memory is writable, results are
156 not written to the file. */
157 ELF_C_EMPTY, /* Copy basic file data but not the content. */
158 /* Keep this the last entry. */
159 ELF_C_NUM
160} Elf_Cmd;
161
162
163/* Flags for the ELF structures. */
164enum
165{
166 ELF_F_DIRTY = 0x1,
167#define ELF_F_DIRTY ELF_F_DIRTY
168 ELF_F_LAYOUT = 0x4,
169#define ELF_F_LAYOUT ELF_F_LAYOUT
170 ELF_F_PERMISSIVE = 0x8
171#define ELF_F_PERMISSIVE ELF_F_PERMISSIVE
172};
173
174/* Flags for elf_compress[_gnu]. */
175enum
176{
177 ELF_CHF_FORCE = 0x1
178#define ELF_CHF_FORCE ELF_CHF_FORCE
179};
180
181/* Identification values for recognized object files. */
182typedef enum
183{
184 ELF_K_NONE, /* Unknown. */
185 ELF_K_AR, /* Archive. */
186 ELF_K_COFF, /* Stupid old COFF. */
187 ELF_K_ELF, /* ELF file. */
188 /* Keep this the last entry. */
189 ELF_K_NUM
190} Elf_Kind;
191
192
193/* Archive member header. */
194typedef struct
195{
196 char *ar_name; /* Name of archive member. */
197 time_t ar_date; /* File date. */
198 uid_t ar_uid; /* User ID. */
199 gid_t ar_gid; /* Group ID. */
200 mode_t ar_mode; /* File mode. */
201 int64_t ar_size; /* File size. */
202 char *ar_rawname; /* Original name of archive member. */
203} Elf_Arhdr;
204
205
206/* Archive symbol table entry. */
207typedef struct
208{
209 char *as_name; /* Symbol name. */
210 size_t as_off; /* Offset for this file in the archive. */
211 unsigned long int as_hash; /* Hash value of the name. */
212} Elf_Arsym;
213
214
215/* Descriptor for the ELF file. */
216typedef struct Elf Elf;
217
218/* Descriptor for ELF file section. */
219typedef struct Elf_Scn Elf_Scn;
220
221
222#ifdef __cplusplus
223extern "C" {
224#endif
225
226/* Return descriptor for ELF file to work according to CMD. */
227extern Elf *elf_begin (int __fildes, Elf_Cmd __cmd, Elf *__ref);
228
229/* Create a clone of an existing ELF descriptor. */
230 extern Elf *elf_clone (Elf *__elf, Elf_Cmd __cmd);
231
232/* Create descriptor for memory region. */
233extern Elf *elf_memory (char *__image, size_t __size);
234
235/* Advance archive descriptor to next element. */
236extern Elf_Cmd elf_next (Elf *__elf);
237
238/* Free resources allocated for ELF. */
239extern int elf_end (Elf *__elf);
240
241/* Update ELF descriptor and write file to disk. */
242extern int64_t elf_update (Elf *__elf, Elf_Cmd __cmd);
243
244/* Determine what kind of file is associated with ELF. */
245extern Elf_Kind elf_kind (Elf *__elf) __pure_attribute__;
246
247/* Get the base offset for an object file. */
248extern int64_t elf_getbase (Elf *__elf);
249
250
251/* Retrieve file identification data. */
252extern char *elf_getident (Elf *__elf, size_t *__nbytes);
253
254/* Retrieve class-dependent object file header. */
255extern Elf32_Ehdr *elf32_getehdr (Elf *__elf);
256/* Similar but this time the binary calls is ELFCLASS64. */
257extern Elf64_Ehdr *elf64_getehdr (Elf *__elf);
258
259/* Create ELF header if none exists. */
260extern Elf32_Ehdr *elf32_newehdr (Elf *__elf);
261/* Similar but this time the binary calls is ELFCLASS64. */
262extern Elf64_Ehdr *elf64_newehdr (Elf *__elf);
263
264/* Get the number of program headers in the ELF file. If the file uses
265 more headers than can be represented in the e_phnum field of the ELF
266 header the information from the sh_info field in the zeroth section
267 header is used. */
268extern int elf_getphdrnum (Elf *__elf, size_t *__dst);
269
270/* Retrieve class-dependent program header table. */
271extern Elf32_Phdr *elf32_getphdr (Elf *__elf);
272/* Similar but this time the binary calls is ELFCLASS64. */
273extern Elf64_Phdr *elf64_getphdr (Elf *__elf);
274
275/* Create ELF program header. */
276extern Elf32_Phdr *elf32_newphdr (Elf *__elf, size_t __cnt);
277/* Similar but this time the binary calls is ELFCLASS64. */
278extern Elf64_Phdr *elf64_newphdr (Elf *__elf, size_t __cnt);
279
280
281/* Get section at INDEX. */
282extern Elf_Scn *elf_getscn (Elf *__elf, size_t __index);
283
284/* Get section at OFFSET. */
285extern Elf_Scn *elf32_offscn (Elf *__elf, Elf32_Off __offset);
286/* Similar bug this time the binary calls is ELFCLASS64. */
287extern Elf_Scn *elf64_offscn (Elf *__elf, Elf64_Off __offset);
288
289/* Get index of section. */
290extern size_t elf_ndxscn (Elf_Scn *__scn);
291
292/* Get section with next section index. */
293extern Elf_Scn *elf_nextscn (Elf *__elf, Elf_Scn *__scn);
294
295/* Create a new section and append it at the end of the table. */
296extern Elf_Scn *elf_newscn (Elf *__elf);
297
298/* Get the section index of the extended section index table for the
299 given symbol table. */
300extern int elf_scnshndx (Elf_Scn *__scn);
301
302/* Get the number of sections in the ELF file. If the file uses more
303 sections than can be represented in the e_shnum field of the ELF
304 header the information from the sh_size field in the zeroth section
305 header is used. */
306extern int elf_getshdrnum (Elf *__elf, size_t *__dst);
307/* Sun messed up the implementation of 'elf_getshnum' in their implementation.
308 It was agreed to make the same functionality available under a different
309 name and obsolete the old name. */
310extern int elf_getshnum (Elf *__elf, size_t *__dst)
311 __deprecated_attribute__;
312
313
314/* Get the section index of the section header string table in the ELF
315 file. If the index cannot be represented in the e_shstrndx field of
316 the ELF header the information from the sh_link field in the zeroth
317 section header is used. */
318extern int elf_getshdrstrndx (Elf *__elf, size_t *__dst);
319/* Sun messed up the implementation of 'elf_getshstrndx' in their
320 implementation. It was agreed to make the same functionality available
321 under a different name and obsolete the old name. */
322extern int elf_getshstrndx (Elf *__elf, size_t *__dst)
323 __deprecated_attribute__;
324
325
326/* Retrieve section header of ELFCLASS32 binary. */
327extern Elf32_Shdr *elf32_getshdr (Elf_Scn *__scn);
328/* Similar for ELFCLASS64. */
329extern Elf64_Shdr *elf64_getshdr (Elf_Scn *__scn);
330
331/* Returns compression header for a section if section data is
332 compressed. Returns NULL and sets elf_errno if the section isn't
333 compressed or an error occurred. */
334extern Elf32_Chdr *elf32_getchdr (Elf_Scn *__scn);
335extern Elf64_Chdr *elf64_getchdr (Elf_Scn *__scn);
336
337/* Compress or decompress the data of a section and adjust the section
338 header.
339
340 elf_compress works by setting or clearing the SHF_COMPRESS flag
341 from the section Shdr and will encode or decode a Elf32_Chdr or
342 Elf64_Chdr at the start of the section data. elf_compress_gnu will
343 encode or decode any section, but is traditionally only used for
344 sections that have a name starting with ".debug" when
345 uncompressed or ".zdebug" when compressed and stores just the
346 uncompressed size. The GNU compression method is deprecated and
347 should only be used for legacy support.
348
349 elf_compress takes a compression type that should be either zero to
350 decompress or an ELFCOMPRESS algorithm to use for compression.
351 Currently only ELFCOMPRESS_ZLIB is supported. elf_compress_gnu
352 will compress in the traditional GNU compression format when
353 compress is one and decompress the section data when compress is
354 zero.
355
356 The FLAGS argument can be zero or ELF_CHF_FORCE. If FLAGS contains
357 ELF_CHF_FORCE then it will always compress the section, even if
358 that would not reduce the size of the data section (including the
359 header). Otherwise elf_compress and elf_compress_gnu will compress
360 the section only if the total data size is reduced.
361
362 On successful compression or decompression the function returns
363 one. If (not forced) compression is requested and the data section
364 would not actually reduce in size, the section is not actually
365 compressed and zero is returned. Otherwise -1 is returned and
366 elf_errno is set.
367
368 It is an error to request compression for a section that already
369 has SHF_COMPRESSED set, or (for elf_compress) to request
370 decompression for an section that doesn't have SHF_COMPRESSED set.
371 If a section has SHF_COMPRESSED set then calling elf_compress_gnu
372 will result in an error. The section has to be decompressed first
373 using elf_compress. Calling elf_compress on a section compressed
374 with elf_compress_gnu is fine, but probably useless.
375
376 It is always an error to call these functions on SHT_NOBITS
377 sections or if the section has the SHF_ALLOC flag set.
378 elf_compress_gnu will not check whether the section name starts
379 with ".debug" or .zdebug". It is the responsibility of the caller
380 to make sure the deprecated GNU compression method is only called
381 on correctly named sections (and to change the name of the section
382 when using elf_compress_gnu).
383
384 All previous returned Shdrs and Elf_Data buffers are invalidated by
385 this call and should no longer be accessed.
386
387 Note that although this changes the header and data returned it
388 doesn't mark the section as dirty. To keep the changes when
389 calling elf_update the section has to be flagged ELF_F_DIRTY. */
390extern int elf_compress (Elf_Scn *scn, int type, unsigned int flags);
391extern int elf_compress_gnu (Elf_Scn *scn, int compress, unsigned int flags);
392
393/* Set or clear flags for ELF file. */
394extern unsigned int elf_flagelf (Elf *__elf, Elf_Cmd __cmd,
395 unsigned int __flags);
396/* Similarly for the ELF header. */
397extern unsigned int elf_flagehdr (Elf *__elf, Elf_Cmd __cmd,
398 unsigned int __flags);
399/* Similarly for the ELF program header. */
400extern unsigned int elf_flagphdr (Elf *__elf, Elf_Cmd __cmd,
401 unsigned int __flags);
402/* Similarly for the given ELF section. */
403extern unsigned int elf_flagscn (Elf_Scn *__scn, Elf_Cmd __cmd,
404 unsigned int __flags);
405/* Similarly for the given ELF data. */
406extern unsigned int elf_flagdata (Elf_Data *__data, Elf_Cmd __cmd,
407 unsigned int __flags);
408/* Similarly for the given ELF section header. */
409extern unsigned int elf_flagshdr (Elf_Scn *__scn, Elf_Cmd __cmd,
410 unsigned int __flags);
411
412
413/* Get data from section while translating from file representation to
414 memory representation. The Elf_Data d_type is set based on the
415 section type if known. Otherwise d_type is set to ELF_T_BYTE. If
416 the section contains compressed data then d_type is always set to
417 ELF_T_CHDR. */
418extern Elf_Data *elf_getdata (Elf_Scn *__scn, Elf_Data *__data);
419
420/* Get uninterpreted section content. */
421extern Elf_Data *elf_rawdata (Elf_Scn *__scn, Elf_Data *__data);
422
423/* Create new data descriptor for section SCN. */
424extern Elf_Data *elf_newdata (Elf_Scn *__scn);
425
426/* Get data translated from a chunk of the file contents as section data
427 would be for TYPE. The resulting Elf_Data pointer is valid until
428 elf_end (ELF) is called. */
429extern Elf_Data *elf_getdata_rawchunk (Elf *__elf,
430 int64_t __offset, size_t __size,
431 Elf_Type __type);
432
433
434/* Return pointer to string at OFFSET in section INDEX. */
435extern char *elf_strptr (Elf *__elf, size_t __index, size_t __offset);
436
437
438/* Return header of archive. */
439extern Elf_Arhdr *elf_getarhdr (Elf *__elf);
440
441/* Return offset in archive for current file ELF. */
442extern int64_t elf_getaroff (Elf *__elf);
443
444/* Select archive element at OFFSET. */
445extern size_t elf_rand (Elf *__elf, size_t __offset);
446
447/* Get symbol table of archive. */
448extern Elf_Arsym *elf_getarsym (Elf *__elf, size_t *__narsyms);
449
450
451/* Control ELF descriptor. */
452extern int elf_cntl (Elf *__elf, Elf_Cmd __cmd);
453
454/* Retrieve uninterpreted file contents. */
455extern char *elf_rawfile (Elf *__elf, size_t *__nbytes);
456
457
458/* Return size of array of COUNT elements of the type denoted by TYPE
459 in the external representation. The binary class is taken from ELF.
460 The result is based on version VERSION of the ELF standard. */
461extern size_t elf32_fsize (Elf_Type __type, size_t __count,
462 unsigned int __version)
463 __const_attribute__;
464/* Similar but this time the binary calls is ELFCLASS64. */
465extern size_t elf64_fsize (Elf_Type __type, size_t __count,
466 unsigned int __version)
467 __const_attribute__;
468
469
470/* Convert data structure from the representation in the file represented
471 by ELF to their memory representation. */
472extern Elf_Data *elf32_xlatetom (Elf_Data *__dest, const Elf_Data *__src,
473 unsigned int __encode);
474/* Same for 64 bit class. */
475extern Elf_Data *elf64_xlatetom (Elf_Data *__dest, const Elf_Data *__src,
476 unsigned int __encode);
477
478/* Convert data structure from to the representation in memory
479 represented by ELF file representation. */
480extern Elf_Data *elf32_xlatetof (Elf_Data *__dest, const Elf_Data *__src,
481 unsigned int __encode);
482/* Same for 64 bit class. */
483extern Elf_Data *elf64_xlatetof (Elf_Data *__dest, const Elf_Data *__src,
484 unsigned int __encode);
485
486
487/* Return error code of last failing function call. This value is kept
488 separately for each thread. */
489extern int elf_errno (void);
490
491/* Return error string for ERROR. If ERROR is zero, return error string
492 for most recent error or NULL is none occurred. If ERROR is -1 the
493 behaviour is similar to the last case except that not NULL but a legal
494 string is returned. */
495extern const char *elf_errmsg (int __error);
496
497
498/* Coordinate ELF library and application versions. */
499extern unsigned int elf_version (unsigned int __version);
500
501/* Set fill bytes used to fill holes in data structures. */
502extern void elf_fill (int __fill);
503
504/* Compute hash value. */
505extern unsigned long int elf_hash (const char *__string)
506 __pure_attribute__;
507
508/* Compute hash value using the GNU-specific hash function. */
509extern unsigned long int elf_gnu_hash (const char *__string)
510 __pure_attribute__;
511
512
513/* Compute simple checksum from permanent parts of the ELF file. */
514extern long int elf32_checksum (Elf *__elf);
515/* Similar but this time the binary calls is ELFCLASS64. */
516extern long int elf64_checksum (Elf *__elf);
517
518#ifdef __cplusplus
519}
520#endif
521
522#endif /* libelf.h */
523

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