commit 1df71d32fe5f5905ffd5d100e5e9ca8ad6210891
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 20 11:00:42 2022 +0200

    elf: Implement force_first handling in _dl_sort_maps_dfs (bug 28937)
    
    The implementation in _dl_close_worker requires that the first
    element of l_initfini is always this very map (“We are always the
    zeroth entry, and since we don't include ourselves in the
    dependency analysis start at 1.”).  Rather than fixing that
    assumption, this commit adds an implementation of the force_first
    argument to the new dependency sorting algorithm.  This also means
    that the directly dlopen'ed shared object is always initialized last,
    which is the least surprising behavior in the presence of cycles.
    
    Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>

diff --git a/elf/dl-sort-maps.c b/elf/dl-sort-maps.c
index 7a586749adc3fa7d..6f5c17b47b98fbc7 100644
--- a/elf/dl-sort-maps.c
+++ b/elf/dl-sort-maps.c
@@ -182,8 +182,9 @@ dfs_traversal (struct link_map ***rpo, struct link_map *map,
 
 static void
 _dl_sort_maps_dfs (struct link_map **maps, unsigned int nmaps,
-		   bool force_first __attribute__ ((unused)), bool for_fini)
+		   bool force_first, bool for_fini)
 {
+  struct link_map *first_map = maps[0];
   for (int i = nmaps - 1; i >= 0; i--)
     maps[i]->l_visited = 0;
 
@@ -208,14 +209,6 @@ _dl_sort_maps_dfs (struct link_map **maps, unsigned int nmaps,
      Adjusting the order so that maps[0] is last traversed naturally avoids
      this problem.
 
-     Further, the old "optimization" of skipping the main object at maps[0]
-     from the call-site (i.e. _dl_sort_maps(maps+1,nmaps-1)) is in general
-     no longer valid, since traversing along object dependency-links
-     may "find" the main object even when it is not included in the initial
-     order (e.g. a dlopen()'ed shared object can have circular dependencies
-     linked back to itself). In such a case, traversing N-1 objects will
-     create a N-object result, and raise problems.
-
      To summarize, just passing in the full list, and iterating from back
      to front makes things much more straightforward.  */
 
@@ -274,6 +267,27 @@ _dl_sort_maps_dfs (struct link_map **maps, unsigned int nmaps,
     }
 
   memcpy (maps, rpo, sizeof (struct link_map *) * nmaps);
+
+  /* Skipping the first object at maps[0] is not valid in general,
+     since traversing along object dependency-links may "find" that
+     first object even when it is not included in the initial order
+     (e.g., a dlopen'ed shared object can have circular dependencies
+     linked back to itself).  In such a case, traversing N-1 objects
+     will create a N-object result, and raise problems.  Instead,
+     force the object back into first place after sorting.  This naive
+     approach may introduce further dependency ordering violations
+     compared to rotating the cycle until the first map is again in
+     the first position, but as there is a cycle, at least one
+     violation is already present.  */
+  if (force_first && maps[0] != first_map)
+    {
+      int i;
+      for (i = 0; maps[i] != first_map; ++i)
+	;
+      assert (i < nmaps);
+      memmove (&maps[1], maps, i * sizeof (maps[0]));
+      maps[0] = first_map;
+    }
 }
 
 void
diff --git a/elf/dso-sort-tests-1.def b/elf/dso-sort-tests-1.def
index 5f7f18ef270bc12d..4bf9052db16fb352 100644
--- a/elf/dso-sort-tests-1.def
+++ b/elf/dso-sort-tests-1.def
@@ -64,3 +64,10 @@ output: b>a>{}<a<b
 tst-bz15311: {+a;+e;+f;+g;+d;%d;-d;-g;-f;-e;-a};a->b->c->d;d=>[ba];c=>a;b=>e=>a;c=>f=>b;d=>g=>c
 output(glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1): {+a[d>c>b>a>];+e[e>];+f[f>];+g[g>];+d[];%d(b(e(a()))a()g(c(a()f(b(e(a()))))));-d[];-g[];-f[];-e[];-a[<a<c<d<g<f<b<e];}
 output(glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=2): {+a[d>c>b>a>];+e[e>];+f[f>];+g[g>];+d[];%d(b(e(a()))a()g(c(a()f(b(e(a()))))));-d[];-g[];-f[];-e[];-a[<g<f<a<b<c<d<e];}
+
+# Test that even in the presence of dependency loops involving dlopen'ed
+# object, that object is initialized last (and not unloaded prematurely).
+# Final destructor order is indeterminate due to the cycle.
+tst-bz28937: {+a;+b;-b;+c;%c};a->a1;a->a2;a2->a;b->b1;c->a1;c=>a1
+output(glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1): {+a[a2>a1>a>];+b[b1>b>];-b[<b<b1];+c[c>];%c(a1());}<a<a2<c<a1
+output(glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=2): {+a[a2>a1>a>];+b[b1>b>];-b[<b<b1];+c[c>];%c(a1());}<a2<a<c<a1
