From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [Bug] modules zsh/tcp, zsh/zftp unloadable, probably affecting most modern Linuxes
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 10:05:32 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1604572963.1688389.1686042332603@mail.virginmedia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FF8D1182-CFF2-4831-BFF0-5232258508CC@kba.biglobe.ne.jp>
> On 06/06/2023 07:42 Jun T <takimoto-j@kba.biglobe.ne.jp> wrote:
> I think the problem is '-Wl,-z,now'. man ld(1) says:
>
> now When generating an executable or shared library, mark it to
> tell the dynamic linker to resolve all symbols when the program
> is started, or when the shared library is loaded by dlopen,
> instead of deferring function call resolution to the point when
> the function is first called.
>
> It seems this option has the higher precedence than the option
> '-z lazy' in the same command line, or the RTLD_LAZY for dlopen().
>
> On Fedora-38:
> % readelf --dynamic /usr/lib64/zsh/5.9/zsh/zftp.so | grep FLAG
> 0x000000000000001e (FLAGS) BIND_NOW
> 0x000000006ffffffb (FLAGS_1) Flags: NOW
>
> I think this flag in zftp.so is the result of '-z now'
>
> On Debian-11, /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/zsh/5.8/zsh/zftp.so has the
> same flag. I guess Debian binary package is also built with '-z now'.
>
> The zftp.so built by myself does not have this flag.
>
> Why '-z now' is used when building binary packages? For security?
I think this is just so that failure to find symbols at all will
show up quickly in the build rather than at run time, which would
be a real pain.
One solution might be to build first with -z now to confirm that it
does link, and then -z lazy to make it more useful when installed.
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-06 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-04 13:51 Marcus Müller
2023-06-04 20:37 ` Marcus Müller
2023-06-04 21:17 ` Philippe Troin
2023-06-05 19:35 ` Marcus Müller
2023-06-05 20:07 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-06-06 6:42 ` Jun T
2023-06-06 9:05 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2023-06-06 14:38 ` Jun. T
2023-06-06 15:01 ` Peter Stephenson
2023-06-06 16:37 ` Philippe Troin
2023-06-06 17:54 ` Mikael Magnusson
2023-06-07 2:05 ` Jun T
2023-06-07 2:35 ` Jun T
2023-06-07 14:40 ` Jun. T
2023-06-23 13:41 ` Jun. T
2023-06-07 9:25 ` Marcus Müller
2023-06-04 22:41 ` Axel Beckert
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