Re: Is PIE randomization breaking klibc binaries?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 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.

My guess would be the former, rather than the latter.  I haven't had a 
chance to reproduce it myself yet (I'm on the road), but I will try to 
get the time tomorrow.
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