/* * Copyright (C) 2026, Ziyang Zhang * * dlcall (Dynamic Linking Call) plugin: lets a linux-user guest invoke host * functions by issuing a magic system call. The guest can ask QEMU to dlopen() * a host shared library, dlsym() a symbol, and call it with guest-supplied * arguments. * * The plugin intentionally keeps the QEMU side lightweight and prescribes * nothing about how a library is thunked. Any toolchain can implement the * userspace side. Lorelei is one end-to-end implementation (guest/host * runtimes plus a thunk compiler that generates thunks from a library's * headers), and how it handles argument marshalling, callbacks and variadic * functions can serve as a reference: * https://github.com/rover2024/lorelei * * See docs/about/emulation.rst|Dynamic Linking Call for details and examples. * * WARNING: trusted guests only. The guest can load arbitrary host libraries * and execute arbitrary host code with arbitrary arguments, i.e. full code * execution in the QEMU host process. It is NOT a sandbox and provides no * isolation; only load it for guests you fully trust. * * WARNING: requires guest_base == 0, which is qemu-user's default, and a * guest whose pointer width and endianness match the host's. Pointer operands * are dereferenced as host addresses directly, and the invoked host functions * dereference guest pointers with no address translation, so guest and host * must share a single address space and agree on how a pointer is stored. A * non-zero guest_base (e.g. set via -B/-R) would make every pointer off by * guest_base and hit unrelated host memory. * * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include QEMU_PLUGIN_EXPORT int qemu_plugin_version = QEMU_PLUGIN_VERSION; /* * The magic system call number for dlcall. * * It defaults to DLCALL_SYSCALL_DEFAULT and can be overridden at load time * with the "syscall_num=N" argument. To avoid hijacking a real syscall the * guest might issue, N must be at least DLCALL_SYSCALL_MIN, which most Linux * ABIs keep their syscall numbers well below. * * N also has to reach the filter at all, which bounds it from above in a * target specific way: arm32 answers anything past ARM_NR_BASE (0xf0000) with * ENOSYS or SIGILL before do_syscall() runs, while aarch64 has no such bound. * * MIPS O32 bases its numbering at 4000, so the default is a real syscall there * (getpriority). Raising N does not help either, because O32 rejects numbers * its table does not define, again before the filter runs, which leaves no * number that is both free and reachable on that ABI. Its N32 and N64 ABIs * base at 6000 and 5000 and have no such gate, so they are unaffected. */ enum { DLCALL_SYSCALL_DEFAULT = 4096, DLCALL_SYSCALL_MIN = 4096, }; static int64_t dlcall_syscall_num = DLCALL_SYSCALL_DEFAULT; /* * dlcall calling convention. * * The guest issues the magic system call (dlcall_syscall_num). The first * argument (a1) is one of the call IDs below; the remaining arguments (a2, a3, * a4, ...) are that ID's operands. All pointer operands are guest virtual * addresses that the plugin dereferences as host addresses directly (see the * guest_base requirement above). Results are written back through * caller-provided "out" pointers rather than returned in the syscall value. * * The syscall return value (*sysret) only reports dispatch status: 0 on a * recognised ID, -EINVAL for an unknown one. The actual success/failure of an * operation (e.g. a NULL handle from dlopen) is delivered through its out * pointer, exactly like the underlying libdl call. * * Operands per ID: * * DLCALL_ID_GET_HOST_ATTRIBUTE * a2 const char *key in: attribute name to query * a3 const char **attr_ptr out: matching value, or NULL if unknown * * DLCALL_ID_LOAD_LIBRARY (wraps dlopen) * a2 const char *path in: library path * a3 int flags in: dlopen() flags (e.g. RTLD_NOW) * a4 void **handle_ptr out: library handle, or NULL on failure * * DLCALL_ID_GET_PROC_ADDRESS (wraps dlsym) * a2 void *handle in: library handle * a3 const char *name in: symbol name * a4 void **entry_ptr out: symbol address, or NULL if not found * * DLCALL_ID_FREE_LIBRARY (wraps dlclose) * a2 void *handle in: library handle * a3 int *ret_ptr out: dlclose() return value (0 on success) * * DLCALL_ID_GET_LIBRARY_ERROR (wraps dlerror) * a2 const char **error_ptr out: last libdl error string, or NULL * * DLCALL_ID_INVOKE_PROC (calls the symbol) * a2 void *proc in: function pointer, signature * void (*)(void *arg1, void *arg2) * a3 void *arg1 in: first argument forwarded to proc * a4 void *arg2 in: second argument forwarded to proc */ enum DlcallID { DLCALL_ID_GET_HOST_ATTRIBUTE, DLCALL_ID_LOAD_LIBRARY, DLCALL_ID_GET_PROC_ADDRESS, DLCALL_ID_FREE_LIBRARY, DLCALL_ID_GET_LIBRARY_ERROR, DLCALL_ID_INVOKE_PROC, }; static inline const char *query_host_attribute(const char *key) { if (strcmp(key, "emu") == 0) { return "qemu"; } return NULL; } static inline void invoke_proc(void *proc, void *arg1, void *arg2) { typedef void (*Func)(void * /*arg1*/, void * /*arg2*/); Func func = (Func) proc; func(arg1, arg2); } static bool vcpu_syscall_filter(unsigned int vcpu_index, int64_t num, uint64_t a1, uint64_t a2, uint64_t a3, uint64_t a4, uint64_t a5, uint64_t a6, uint64_t a7, uint64_t a8, int64_t *sysret, void *userdata) { if (num == dlcall_syscall_num) { switch (a1) { /* Query host attribute by a reserved key. */ case DLCALL_ID_GET_HOST_ATTRIBUTE: { const char *key = (const char *) a2; const char **attr_ptr = (const char **) a3; assert(attr_ptr); *attr_ptr = query_host_attribute(key); *sysret = 0; break; } /* Load a shared library. */ case DLCALL_ID_LOAD_LIBRARY: { const char *path = (const char *) a2; int flags = (int) a3; void **handle_ptr = (void **) a4; assert(handle_ptr); *handle_ptr = dlopen(path, flags); *sysret = 0; break; } /* Get the address of a function in a shared library. */ case DLCALL_ID_GET_PROC_ADDRESS: { void *handle = (void *) a2; const char *name = (const char *) a3; void **entry_ptr = (void **) a4; assert(entry_ptr); *entry_ptr = dlsym(handle, name); *sysret = 0; break; } /* Free a shared library. */ case DLCALL_ID_FREE_LIBRARY: { void *handle = (void *) a2; int *ret_ptr = (int *) a3; assert(ret_ptr); *ret_ptr = dlclose(handle); *sysret = 0; break; } /* Get the last error message for a library event. */ case DLCALL_ID_GET_LIBRARY_ERROR: { const char **error_ptr = (const char **) a2; assert(error_ptr); *error_ptr = dlerror(); *sysret = 0; break; } /* Invoke a function of a common interface. */ case DLCALL_ID_INVOKE_PROC: { void *proc = (void *) a2; void *arg1 = (void *) a3; void *arg2 = (void *) a4; assert(proc); invoke_proc(proc, arg1, arg2); *sysret = 0; break; } default: *sysret = -EINVAL; break; } return true; } return false; } QEMU_PLUGIN_EXPORT int qemu_plugin_install(qemu_plugin_id_t id, const qemu_info_t *info, int argc, char **argv) { if (info->system_emulation) { fprintf(stderr, "plugin dlcall: only useful for user emulation\n"); return -1; } for (int i = 0; i < argc; i++) { char *opt = argv[i]; g_auto(GStrv) tokens = g_strsplit(opt, "=", 2); if (g_strcmp0(tokens[0], "syscall_num") == 0) { const char *val = tokens[1]; char *endptr = NULL; guint64 num; if (!val || *val == '\0') { fprintf(stderr, "plugin dlcall: missing value for syscall_num\n"); return -1; } num = g_ascii_strtoull(val, &endptr, 0); if (*endptr != '\0' || g_strrstr(val, "-") != NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "plugin dlcall: invalid syscall_num '%s'\n", val); return -1; } if (num < DLCALL_SYSCALL_MIN || num > G_MAXINT64) { fprintf(stderr, "plugin dlcall: syscall_num %s is out of range; " "it must be >= %d to avoid clashing with a real " "syscall\n", val, DLCALL_SYSCALL_MIN); return -1; } dlcall_syscall_num = (int64_t) num; } else { fprintf(stderr, "plugin dlcall: unknown option '%s'\n", opt); return -1; } } qemu_plugin_register_vcpu_syscall_filter_cb(id, vcpu_syscall_filter, NULL); return 0; }