Call for testing: OpenSSH 8.9

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2022, Damien Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, Dmitry Belyavskiy wrote:
> 
> > Current master (bc16667b4a1c3cad7029304853c143a32ae04bd4) fails on Fedora 35
> > when building building tests with========
> > cc -o regress/unittests/misc/test_misc -L. -Lopenbsd-compat/  -Wl,-z,relro
> > -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,noexecstack -fstack-protector-strong -pie
> >  regress/unittests/misc/tests.o regress/unittests/misc/test_parse.o
> > regress/unittests/misc/test_expand.o regress/unittests/misc/test_convtime.o
> > regress/unittests/misc/test_argv.o regress/unittests/misc/test_strdelim.o
> > regress/unittests/misc/test_hpdelim.o \
> >     regress/unittests/test_helper/libtest_helper.a \
> >     -lssh -lopenbsd-compat -lssh -lopenbsd-compat -lcrypto -lz  -lcrypt
> > /usr/bin/ld: regress/unittests/misc/test_hpdelim.o: relocation R_X86_64_32
> > against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile
> > with -fPIE
> 
> That's weird, because according to the configure output, -fPIE is already
> in CFLAGS.
> 
> >     Compiler flags: -g -O2 -pipe -Wno-error=format-truncation -Wall -Wextra
> > -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security
> > -Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused-parameter
> > -Wno-unused-result -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wmisleading-indentation
> > -fno-strict-aliasing -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -ftrapv -fzero-call-used-regs=all
> > -fno-builtin-memset -fstack-protector-strong -fPIE
> 
> Is it possible you had an old .o file laying around from a previous
> compilation?
> 
> If not, then please dig out the make output for the compilation of
> test_hpdelim.c and see whather -fPIE is applied there correctly.

FWIW, I couldn't replicate this in a fedora35 VM

-d