Re: exec hang at boot.

[Richard Braun]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 12:16:51AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> I might have found the trigger for the exec hang at boot. The symptoms
> were that very early during the program loading by ld.so, it would
> overflow its stack with 0x40, apparently because there were odd things
> happening with the GOT. One odd thing was that ld.so was getting loaded
> at 0x0. That's because it is a PIE. Issues that might come up are that
> pointer 0x0 could then actually be a should-be-valid pointer...  I
> modified gnumach to load PIE binaries at 0x8000000, like our exec server
> does, and couldn't reproduce the exec hang at boot. This is now in
> debian as gnumach version 2:1.8+git20201007-1.

Very nice.

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Richard Braun