linux-kernel - Re: regression: Bug 215601 - gcc segv at startup on ia64

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Message-ID: <202202231957.801F1780@keescook>
Date:   Wed, 23 Feb 2022 19:58:58 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:     Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>,
        Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@...cle.com>,
        matoro_bugzilla_kernel@...oro.tk,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "regressions@...ts.linux.dev" <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: regression: Bug 215601 - gcc segv at startup on ia64

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 10:57:01PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Kees!
> 
> On 2/21/22 21:58, Kees Cook wrote:
> >> I have applied this patch on top of 038101e6b2cd5c55f888f85db42ea2ad3aecb4b6 and it doesn't
> >> fix the problem for me. Reverting 5f501d555653f8968011a1e65ebb121c8b43c144, however, fixes
> >> the problem.
> >>
> >> FWIW, this problem doesn't just affect GCC but systemd keeps segfaulting with this change as well.
> > 
> > Very weird! Can you attached either of those binaries to bugzilla (or a URL I can fetch it from)? I can try to figure out where it is going weird...
> 
> Here's the initrd of that particular machine:
> 
> > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/initrd.img-5.17.0-rc5+
> 
> You should be able to extract the binaries from this initrd image and the "mount" command,
> for example, should be one of the affected binaries.

I don't see anything immediately obvious here, but I'll keep looking. Is
there any way to emulate ia64? I don't see anything that'll work under
QEMU...

-- 
Kees Cook