Hello Damien,

Le 18/05/2021 à 00:03, Damien Le Moal a écrit :
> On 2021/05/18 6:21, Romain Naour wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Recently in Buildroot the option BR2_PIC_PIE has been enabled by default 
>> along
>> with other hardening features [1]. Since then some ppc defconfig such
>> qemu_ppc_e500mc_defconfig are failing to boot due to a segfault in init 
>> program.
> 
> Note that I am seeing similar problems on RISC-V NOMMU builds with the latest
> buildroot/busybox 1.33. I had no time to explore the reason for it yet though.
> It sounds like it may be a similar problem as yours.

The upstream Buildroot project only support RISC-V with MMU
(BR2_ARCH_HAS_MMU_MANDATORY).

> 
>>
>> The segfault appear very early in __uClibc_main while starting any binaries,
>> an issue located in crt1.S (powerpc)[2].
> 
> Same early segfault I am seeing on init shell startup (used as init process in
> my case).

When a binary segfault like this, it can be anythings related to the compiler,
linker, assembler or the libc.

The issue I reported seems only related to powerpc32 achitecture.

Best regards,
Romain

> 
>>
>> After some trial and error, removing HAVE_ASM_PPC_REL16 from CFLAGS [3]
>> allow to generate a working system again. But this is actually wrong since
>> instead we should consider HAVE_ASM_PPC_REL16 always true nowadays.
>>
>> Indeed, Glibc removed HAVE_ASM_PPC_REL16 since version 2.22 [4] since "the
>> minimum binutils supports rel16 relocs". Binutils 2.22 supports R_PPC_REL16 
>> as
>> default.
>>
>> uClibc-ng should remove HAVE_ASM_PPC_REL16 but keep the code as it was 
>> defined.
>> But this doesn't fix the initial issue.
>>
>> Any idea ?
>>
>> [1]
>> https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=810ba387bec3c5b6904e8893fb4cb6f9d3717466
>> [2]
>> https://cgit.uclibc-ng.org/cgi/cgit/uclibc-ng.git/tree/libc/sysdeps/linux/powerpc/crt1.S?id=2bf4991c4dd7b50b74656011dea9c40464ff390c#n47
>> [3]
>> https://cgit.uclibc-ng.org/cgi/cgit/uclibc-ng.git/tree/Rules.mak?id=2bf4991c4dd7b50b74656011dea9c40464ff390c#n486
>> [4]
>> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=59261ad3eb345e0d7b9f5c73e1a09d046991cea5
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Romain
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> 
> 

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