Re: getauxval AT_SECURE error [ was graphics/sane-backends...]

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jun 20, 12:35pm, martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: getauxval AT_SECURE error [ was graphics/sane-backends...]

| On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 03:21:12AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > So where is it being called from? Probably from libcrypto?
| > It [p11-glue] should not expose the symbol...
| 
| Yeah, libcropty's .init section probes for arm properties, with a
| stupid version relying on libc providing "getauxval" (on Linux) or
| not (everwhere else).
| 
| It uses a weak symbol for that, and p11-kit overrides getauxval.
| 
| Now the libcrypto call to getauxval ends in p11-kit's getauxval and that
| can not handle the request and dies.
| 
| Two bugs here:
| 
|  - p11-kit should make the symbol hidden
| 
|  - libcrypto should #ifdef __linux__ (or something) the getauxval code

Libcrypto expects the symbol getauxval to do what it is supposed to if it
exists :-) Let's fix p11-kit. It is stupid to call it getauxval in the first
place, it should have called it istainted() or something.

christos