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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Victor Kamensky <kamensky@cisco.com>
Cc: Jens Rehsack <sno@netbsd.org>, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make: disable use of posix_spawn on mips
Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 11:21:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200229092103.GA27521@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200229075546.12713-1-kamensky@cisco.com>

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 11:55:46PM -0800, Victor Kamensky via Openembedded-core wrote:
> After make-4.3 migration child_execute_job function started
> using posix_spawn function, which happens to be broken on mips.
> 
> It manifests itself as when make executed by root, it switches
> real user id to wrong value because of some issues with direct
> setresuid system call done in glibc __spawni_child function
> through inline assemble and/or gcc compiling it produces wrong
> code. I.e instead of passing -1 posix_spawn function incorrectly
> passes 127 as ruid. Subsequently job started by make can fail
> with permission issue because they run under wrong user.

Thanks for looking into this.

> For now workaround is used by explicitly disabling posix_spawn
> call use by make on mips through configure variable.

The proper fix would be to upgrade to the latest glibc 2.31 branch,
which has backported the fixes for the bug [1] on mips/risc-v/microblaze.

cu
Adrian

[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25523


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-29  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-29  7:55 [PATCH] make: disable use of posix_spawn on mips Victor Kamensky
2020-02-29  8:32 ` ✗ patchtest: failure for " Patchwork
2020-02-29  9:21 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]

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