dl_iterate_phdr — walk through list of shared objects
#define _GNU_SOURCE #include <link.h>
int
dl_iterate_phdr( |
int | (*callback)(struct
dl_phdr_info *info, size_t size, void
*data), |
| void * | data); |
The dl_iterate_phdr()
function allows an application to inquire at run-time to find
out which shared objects it has loaded.
The dl_iterate_phdr()
function walks through the list of an application's shared
objects and calls the function callback once for each object,
until either all shared objects have been processed or
callback returns a
nonzero value.
Each call to callback receives three
arguments: info,
which is a pointer to a structure containing information
about the shared object; size, which is the size of the
structure pointed to by info; and data, which is a copy of
whatever value was passed by the calling program as the
second argument (also named data) in the call to
dl_iterate_phdr().
The info argument
is a structure of the following type:
struct dl_phdr_info { ElfW(Addr) dlpi_addr; /* Base address of object */ const char *dlpi_name; /* (Null-terminated) name of object */ const ElfW(Phdr) *dlpi_phdr; /* Pointer to array of ELF program headers for this object */ ElfW(Half) dlpi_phnum; /* # of items in 'dlpi_phdr' */ };
(The ElfW() macro definition
turns its argument into the name of an ELF data type suitable
for the hardware architecture. For example, on a 32-bit
platform, ElfW(Addr) yields the data type name Elf32_Addr.
Further information on these types can be found in the
<elf.h><link.h>
header files.)
The dlpi_addr field indicates
the base address of the shared object (i.e., the difference
between the virtual memory address of the shared object and
the offset of that object in the file from which it was
loaded). The dlpi_name field is
a null-terminated string giving the pathname from which the
shared object was loaded.
To understand the meaning of the dlpi_phdr and dlpi_phnum fields, we need to be aware that
an ELF shared object consists of a number of segments, each
of which has a corresponding program header describing the
segment. The dlpi_phdr field is
a pointer to an array of the program headers for this shared
object. The dlpi_phnum field
indicates the size of this array.
These program headers are structures of the following form:
typedef struct { Elf32_Word p_type;Elf32_Off p_offset;Elf32_Addr p_vaddr;Elf32_Addr p_paddr;Elf32_Word p_filesz;Elf32_Word p_memsz;Elf32_Word p_flags;Elf32_Word p_align;} Elf32_Phdr;
Note that we can calculate the location of a particular
program header, x, in virtual
memory using the formula:
addr == info−>dlpi_addr + info−>dlpi_phdr[x].p_vaddr;
The dl_iterate_phdr()
function returns whatever value was returned by the last call
to callback.
The dl_iterate_phdr()
function is Linux-specific and should be avoided in portable
applications.
The following program displays a list of pathnames of the shared objects it has loaded. For each shared object, the program lists the virtual addresses at which the object's ELF segments are loaded.
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <link.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
static int
callback(struct dl_phdr_info *info, size_t size, void *data)
{
int j;
printf("name=%s (%d segments)\n", info−>dlpi_name,
info−>dlpi_phnum);
for (j = 0; j < info−>dlpi_phnum; j++)
printf("\t\t header %2d: address=%10p\n", j,
(void *) (info−>dlpi_addr + info−>dlpi_phdr[j].p_vaddr));
return 0;
}
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
dl_iterate_phdr(callback, NULL);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
ldd(1), objdump(1), readelf(1), dlopen(3), feature_test_macros(7), ld.so(8), and the Executable and Linking Format Specification available at various locations online.
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http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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