Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:42:16 +0200 | From | Ulrich Kunitz <> | Subject | Re: Is PIE randomization breaking klibc binaries? |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Yup... it should probably be pointed out the reason the old kernel > worked was nothing but pure dumb luck. This was a GNU ld change which > needed to be undone for klibc. It's unfortunate that stock x86-64 > binaries leave as little of a null pointer range as they do, but that's > life, unfortunately. The other alternative is to map klibc just below > the 2 GB point, which would also work, but the old way broke when the ld > change went in. As previously stated, klibc-1.4.35 or higher fixes this. > > -hpa
Just for the record: The kernel with the PIE patch boots perfectly using the klibc 1.5 shared binaries on my machine.
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