On _dl_map_object the underlying file is not opened in trace mode
(in other cases where the underlying file can't be opened,
_dl_map_object quits with an error). If there any missing libraries
being processed, they will not be considered on final nlist size
passed on _dl_sort_maps later in the function. And it is then used by
_dl_sort_maps_dfs on the stack allocated working maps:
222 /* Array to hold RPO sorting results, before we copy back to maps[]. */
223 struct link_map *rpo[nmaps];
224
225 /* The 'head' position during each DFS iteration. Note that we start at
226 one past the last element due to first-decrement-then-store (see the
227 bottom of above dfs_traversal() routine). */
228 struct link_map **rpo_head = &rpo[nmaps];
However while transversing the 'l_initfini' on dfs_traversal it will
still consider the l_faked maps and thus update rpo more times than the
allocated working 'rpo', overflowing the stack object.
As suggested in bugzilla, one option would be to avoid sorting the maps
for trace mode. However I think ignoring l_faked object does make
sense (there is one less constraint to call the sorting function), it
allows a slight less stack usage for trace, and it is slight simpler
solution.
The tests does trigger the stack overflow, however I tried to make
it more generic to check different scenarios or missing objects.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Adhemerval Zanella