Re: Is PIE randomization breaking klibc binaries?

Jiri Kosina
2007-07-31T12:08:12Z

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> > I just now quickly tried to with klibc-1.5 on i386 with the
> > PIE-randomization patched kernel, and it seems to load static
> > libraries fine. I just downloaded klibc-1.5, built it, and executed a
> > few of the programs in usr/utils/static, all of them worked. Does this
> > also work for you and you are experiencing the problems solely when
> > the binaries are being run from initramfs during boot? I will test
> > more shortly (on x86_64, directly from initramfs) in order to
> > reproduce.
> What about shared binaries?

Works for me too on the pie-randomization patched kernel.

So it seems to me that either it is something x86_64 specific or
initramfs-specific. Will try to reproduce it.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs