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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:41:27 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: New gcc wrapper to try
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 01:28:40AM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> Rich, Isaac -
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:28:28PM -0700, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:19:05 -0400 Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> wrote:
> > > Somebody has enabled stack protector. Either your distro (what distro
> > > are you using) has hacked gcc in a way different from what musl-gcc
> > > expects, or wireless-tools' makefile is adding -fstack-protector...
> >
> > There's no -fstack-protector, so it's Ubuntu's fault.
>
> Several distros do it these days (and Owl will start doing it soon as
> well), so it's becoming standard and needs to be supported.
> Technically, -fno-stack-protector in the musl-gcc wrapper would probably
> make things appear to work, but it's not necessarily a good thing to do
> since it might violate reasonable expectations of the user. I think
> it'd be better for musl to start providing the necessary symbols.
The problem is that the default gcc build incorporates glibc ABI
knowledge (layout of the thread structure) and the assumption that the
thread pointer has been initialized into any binary built with stack
protector. Just adding symbols will not fix anything.
If gcc's stack protector support is built without TLS support so that
it uses a global variable for the canary, instead of a thread-local
variable, then we could support it with no work at all. Unfortunately
I don't believe there's any way to override the type of canary access
gcc does via command line options; you have to rebuild gcc. Thus, for
the time being (until/unless we do TLS and mimic glibc's structure
layout), disabling stack protector is the only option for the wrapper
to use. For our own native gcc builds, we can already support it if I
just add the symbol it needs.
Rich
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