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diff --git a/results/classifier/deepseek-r1:32b/output/syscall/1749393 b/results/classifier/deepseek-r1:32b/output/syscall/1749393 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a2237f14 --- /dev/null +++ b/results/classifier/deepseek-r1:32b/output/syscall/1749393 @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ + + + +sbrk() not working under qemu-user with a PIE-compiled binary? + +In Debian unstable, we recently switched bash to be a PIE-compiled binary (for hardening). Unfortunately this resulted in bash being broken when run under qemu-user (for all target architectures, host being amd64 for me). + +$ sudo chroot /srv/chroots/sid-i386/ qemu-i386-static /bin/bash +bash: xmalloc: .././shell.c:1709: cannot allocate 10 bytes (0 bytes allocated) + +bash has its own malloc implementation based on sbrk(): +https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/lib/malloc/malloc.c + +When we disable this internal implementation and rely on glibc's malloc, then everything is fine. But it might be that glibc has a fallback when sbrk() is not working properly and it might hide the underlying problem in qemu-user. + +This issue has also been reported to the bash upstream author and he suggested that the issue might be in qemu-user so I'm opening a ticket here. Here's the discussion with the bash upstream author: +https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2018-02/threads.html#00080 + +You can find the problematic bash binary in that .deb file: +http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20180206T154716Z/pool/main/b/bash/bash_4.4.18-1_i386.deb + +The version of qemu I have been using is 2.11 (Debian package qemu-user-static version 1:2.11+dfsg-1) but I have had reports that the problem is reproducible with older versions (back to 2.8 at least). + +Here are the related Debian bug reports: +https://bugs.debian.org/889869 +https://bugs.debian.org/865599 + +It's worth noting that bash used to have this problem (when compiled as a PIE binary) even when run directly but then something got fixed in the kernel and now the problem only appears when run under qemu-user: +https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1518483 \ No newline at end of file |