On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 11:55:46PM -0800, Victor Kamensky via Openembedded-core wrote: > After make-4.3 migration child_execute_job function started > using posix_spawn function, which happens to be broken on mips. > > It manifests itself as when make executed by root, it switches > real user id to wrong value because of some issues with direct > setresuid system call done in glibc __spawni_child function > through inline assemble and/or gcc compiling it produces wrong > code. I.e instead of passing -1 posix_spawn function incorrectly > passes 127 as ruid. Subsequently job started by make can fail > with permission issue because they run under wrong user.
Thanks for looking into this. > For now workaround is used by explicitly disabling posix_spawn > call use by make on mips through configure variable. The proper fix would be to upgrade to the latest glibc 2.31 branch, which has backported the fixes for the bug [1] on mips/risc-v/microblaze. cu Adrian [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25523 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
