From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: Robin Jarry <rjarry@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usertools/pmdinfo: remove dependency to ldd
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 09:40:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y05YUDx5oKRqrc1p@platinum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y0lr2AkJjJxFezlQ@platinum>
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 04:02:02PM +0200, Olivier Matz wrote:
> Hi Robin,
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 03:41:25PM +0200, Robin Jarry wrote:
> > Some environments (buildroot) do not have the ldd utility installed by
> > default. However, ldd is often only a wrapper shell script that actually
> > checks that the arguments are valid ELF files and executes them with
> > the LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 variable set in the environment.
> >
> > Since ld.so is the actual ELF interpreter which is loaded first when
> > executing a program, executing any dynamic ELF program/library with that
> > variable set will cause all dependent dynamic libraries to be printed
> > and ld.so will exit before even running main.
> >
> > Excerpt from ld.so(7) man page:
> >
> > LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
> > If set (to any value), causes the program to list its dynamic
> > dependencies, as if run by ldd(1), instead of running normally.
> >
> > Change dpdk-pmdinfo.py to actually "execute" the files provided on the
> > command line with LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 set. Ensure that the files
> > are valid dynamically executable ELF programs to avoid obscure and
> > confusing errors.
> >
> > Reported-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Robin Jarry <rjarry@redhat.com>
>
> Tested on buildroot without ldd.
>
> Reviewed-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
After some more tests, it appears that it only works for an executable
binary, but it does not work for .so PMDs:
# LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dpdk/pmds-22.0/librte_net_ixgbe.so
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
So it is maybe better to keep the original code using ldd.
Thank you Robin anyway.
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2022-10-13 13:41 Robin Jarry
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