In message <[email protected]>, Jessica 
Clarke w
rites:
> > On 21 May 2021, at 15:11, Marcin Wojtas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Jess
> > 
> > pt., 21 maj 2021 o 15:39 Jessica Clarke <[email protected]> napisał(a):
> >> 
> >> On 21 May 2021, at 14:34, Marcin Wojtas <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> The branch main has been updated by mw:
> >>> 
> >>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=af949c590bd8a00a5973b5875d7e
> 0fa6832ea64a
> >>> 
> >>> commit af949c590bd8a00a5973b5875d7e0fa6832ea64a
> >>> Author:     Marcin Wojtas <[email protected]>
> >>> AuthorDate: 2021-05-21 09:29:22 +0000
> >>> Commit:     Marcin Wojtas <[email protected]>
> >>> CommitDate: 2021-05-21 13:33:06 +0000
> >>> 
> >>>   Disable stack gap for ntpd during build.
> >>> 
> >>>   When starting, ntpd calls setrlimit(2) to limit maximum size of its
> >>>   stack. The stack limit chosen by ntpd is 200K, so when stack gap
> >>>   is enabled, the stack gap is larger than this limit, which results
> >>>   in ntpd crashing.
> >> 
> >> Isn’t the bug that the unusable gap counts as usage?
> >> 
> >> Jess
> >> 
> > 
> > An alternative solution was submitted
> > (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29832), so that to extend the limit for
> > ntpd, but eventually it was recommended to simple disable the stack
> > gap for it until it's fixed upstream (see the last comment in the
> > linked revision).
>
> That’s my point, there is nothing to “fix” upstream. NTPD uses less tha
> n 200K
> of stack, thus it is perfectly reasonable for it to set its limit to that. Th
> e
> fact that FreeBSD decides to count an arbitrary, non-deterministic amount of
> additional unusable virtual address space towards that limit is not its fault
> ,
> but a bug in FreeBSD that needs to be fixed as it’s entirely unreasonable f
> or
> applications to have to account for that.

This latest problem is not stack gap. It is PIE.


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