** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+
+ * Running gzip on WSL1 results in the following error:
+ $ gzip
+ -bash: /bin/gzip: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
+ * The error occurs frequently in package updates and makes gzip inoperable
on WSL1
+ * The problem is caused by PT_LOAD offset pointing past the end of file and
the fix is fixing strip to not generate such ELF files and recompiling gzip
with the fixed strip.
+
+ [Test Case]
+
+ * Check the gzip binary for wrong offset:
+ $ FILE=/usr/bin/gzip; readelf -W --program-headers $FILE | awk -v
size=$(stat -c %s $FILE) '/^ LOAD/ {if (strtonum($2) > size) {print "wrong
offset ("$2" ("strtonum($2)") points past EOF:" size; exit 1;}}'
+
+ [ Regression Potential ]
+
+ * The binutils fix could cause binutils to generate invalid ELF files. The
fix is very small and isolated and has been tested and accepted by upstream,
which makes such problems unlikely.
+ * Bugs in the toolchain in general can make the rebuilt gzip show new
errors, but this generally applies to many SRUs and security updates. The
testing period in proposed should mitigate this risk.
+
+ [Originial Bug Text]
+
Summary:
Running gzip on WSL1 results in the following error:
$ gzip
-bash: /bin/gzip: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
What I expect to happen:
gzip executes correctly on WSL1.
What happens instead:
gzip fails with an Exec format error.
Notes:
I suspect a change in how gzip is being built for Eoan is causing issues
with ELF parsing on the WSL1 translation layer. For example:
On Disco with gzip 1.9-3:
$ file /bin/gzip
/bin/gzip: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux
3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=efa859c26eaf8e035efe9a139361e2a60cd17b3e, stripped
On Eoan with gzip 1.10-0ubuntu3:
$ file /bin/gzip
/bin/gzip: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,
BuildID[sha1]=bc0f5994544c2a469d04c914bf4bf44b4ded6040, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0,
stripped
Eoan ships with gzip 1.10, while Disco ships with gzip 1.9, but I do not
believe this is an issue in 1.10 because this error does not occur when
building gzip from GNU project source on Ubuntu Eoan.
Justifications:
WSL1 will need to be patched in future Windows builds for this change in
ELF. However that patch will likely not be backported to older builds of
Windows, including Windows Enterprise/Server 2019.
To ensure Eoan can run on current and older builds of Windows Ubuntu
should consider looking at how it's building gzip and see if it can be
made to 'play nice' until WSL1 can be updated.
This was originally reported here:
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4461
Details:
Description: Ubuntu Eoan Ermine (development branch)
Release: 19.10
gzip:
- Installed: 1.10-0ubuntu3
- Candidate: 1.10-0ubuntu3
- Version table:
- *** 1.10-0ubuntu3 500
- 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages
- 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+ Installed: 1.10-0ubuntu3
+ Candidate: 1.10-0ubuntu3
+ Version table:
+ *** 1.10-0ubuntu3 500
+ 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages
+ 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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