[hardening-discuss] Linker fails on i386 and amd64 with hardening options

[Kees Cook]

Hi Jörg,

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 06:43:36PM +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -g -O2 -fPIC -fPIE -fstack-protector -Wformat=2 -Wextra \
>   -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2   -Wl,-zrelro,-pie conftest.c
> 
> but this fails on i386 and amd64.
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.2.3/../../../../lib64/crt1.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `__libc_csu_fini' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.2.3/../../../../lib64/crt1.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
> 
> Can someone of you help me? The build also fails on Sparc, but I don't
> have the config.log to tell why. I expect it's the same reason.

hardening-wrapper isn't setting "-Wl,-zrelro,-pie" ... that command-line
is wrong.

First, for relro, it should be "-Wl,-z,relro".  "-pie" needs to be
specified on the gcc command-line, not the linker command-line, since gcc
is responsible for choosing the crt, etc.  Do you know what the origin
of the -Wl addition is?

This, for example, works:
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -g -O2 -fPIC -fPIE -pie -fstack-protector -Wformat=2 \
	-Wextra  -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2   -Wl,-z,relro  -o hello hello.c

Note, AFAIK, -fPIC and -fPIE is redundant: -fPIE is a subset of -fPIC.

-Kees

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Kees Cook                                            @outflux.net