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libffi v3.1 - ffi_closure_alloc on Android ARM
- From: GrÃgory Pakosz <gpakosz at myscript dot com>
- To: "libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org" <libffi-discuss at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:40:01 +0000
- Subject: libffi v3.1 - ffi_closure_alloc on Android ARM
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Hello,
When building libffi for Android ARM, invoking anÂffiÂclosure justÂcrashesÂwith SIGSEGV / SEGV_ACCERR (code 2).
It happens malloc on Android doesn't set PROT_EXEC contrary to Linux. As a consequence, to make closures work on Android, I had to tweak fficonfig.h by adding the following preprocessor definitions:
#define FFI_MMAP_EXEC_WRIT Â Â Â 1
#define FFI_MMAP_EXEC_SELINUXÂ0
Otherwise, compiled ffi_closure_alloc is the one that just callsÂreturn *code = malloc (size);
Is defining those two preprocessor tokens the recommended way? If not, is there a better way?
Thank you,
Gregory.
PS: Here are the steps I used to build libffi
$Â/opt/android-ndk/build/tools/make-standalone-toolchain.sh --arch=arm --instal-dir=/tmp/android-arm
$ export PATH=/tmp/android-arm/bin:$PATH
$ cd ~/libffi
$ git checkout v3.1
$ mkdir build-android-arm
$ cd build-android-arm
$ ../configureÂ--host=arm-linux-androideabi
And here are the defines in the generatedÂfficonfig.h
#define EH_FRAME_FLAGS "aw"
#define HAVE_ALLOCA 1
#define HAVE_ALLOCA_H 1
#define HAVE_AS_CFI_PSEUDO_OP 1
#define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1
#define HAVE_HIDDEN_VISIBILITY_ATTRIBUTE 1
#define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
#define HAVE_MEMCPY 1
#define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
#define HAVE_MMAP 1
#define HAVE_MMAP_ANON 1
#define HAVE_MMAP_DEV_ZERO 1
#define HAVE_MMAP_FILE 1
#define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
#define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
#define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
#define HAVE_STRING_H 1
#define HAVE_SYS_MMAN_H 1
#define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
#define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
#define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
#define SIZEOF_DOUBLE 8
#define SIZEOF_LONG_DOUBLE 8
#define SIZEOF_SIZE_T 4
#define STDC_HEADERS 1â
PS2: for the record, Android 2.2 or 2.3's malloc set PROT_EXEC. I'm not sure if behavior changed withÂHoneycomb (3.0â3.2.6), Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0â4.0.4) or Jelly Bean (4.1â4.3.â1).â