Added comment justifying wrapping operations

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Alexandros Naskos 2020-03-03 12:41:11 +02:00
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commit 7559418305
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@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ pub fn lookup(vername: []const u8, name: []const u8) usize {
}) {
const this_ph = @intToPtr(*elf.Phdr, ph_addr);
switch (this_ph.p_type) {
// On WSL1 as well as older kernels, the VDSO ELF image is pre-linked in the upper half
// of the memory space (e.g. p_vaddr = 0xffffffffff700000 on WSL1).
// Wrapping operations are used on this line as well as subsequent calculations relative to base
// (lines 47, 78) to ensure no overflow check is tripped.
elf.PT_LOAD => base = vdso_addr +% this_ph.p_offset -% this_ph.p_vaddr,
elf.PT_DYNAMIC => maybe_dynv = @intToPtr([*]usize, vdso_addr + this_ph.p_offset),
else => {},