Re: Bash's malloc does not work within qemu-user when compiled with PIE enabled

2018-02-13 Thread Chet Ramey
On 2/13/18 11:23 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Chet Ramey wrote: >>> It would be nice if bash's malloc implementation could be fixed to also >>> work under qemu-user. >> >> Does sbrk(2) work in a PIE-enabled environment? > > Note that a bash binary compiled with PIE

Re: Bash's malloc does not work within qemu-user when compiled with PIE enabled

2018-02-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Chet Ramey wrote: > > It would be nice if bash's malloc implementation could be fixed to also > > work under qemu-user. > > Does sbrk(2) work in a PIE-enabled environment? Note that a bash binary compiled with PIE works fine for normal usage with a current Linux kerne

Re: Bash's malloc does not work within qemu-user when compiled with PIE enabled

2018-02-13 Thread Chet Ramey
On 2/13/18 6:41 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > in Debian we wanted to build bash with PIE enabled [1], but we discovered that > bash was broken under qemu-user when it was compiled that way [2]. > > It turns out that it's broken only when it uses bash's malloc > implementation. If we bui

Bash's malloc does not work within qemu-user when compiled with PIE enabled

2018-02-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, in Debian we wanted to build bash with PIE enabled [1], but we discovered that bash was broken under qemu-user when it was compiled that way [2]. It turns out that it's broken only when it uses bash's malloc implementation. If we build bash with PIE and --without-bash-malloc then we don't