Re: firefox broken on arm64

From: Nuno Teixeira <eduardo_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 12:21:50 UTC
Hello Jesper,

I've applied your reversed patch and used makepatch into a ready to use
patch:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=247095

thanks

Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen <jsm@freebsd.org> escreveu no dia sábado,
16/12/2023 à(s) 22:08:

>
>
> On 10.12.2023 14.08, Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 03.12.2023 11.59, Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 03.12.2023 09.38, void wrote:
> >>> On Sun, Dec 03, 2023 at 08:34:21AM +0100, Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Just build firefox-esr-115.5.0_1,1  and firefox-116.0.3_1,2 the
> >>>> first runs with aslr disabled, the latter signals 4.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any suggestions on what is going on are appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> What's the uname -aKU ?
> >>
> >> FreeBSD generic 14.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE #0
> >> releng/14.0-n265380-f9716eee8ab4: Fri Nov 10 09:12:14 UTC 2023
> >> root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/arm64.aarch64/sys/GENERIC
> arm64 1400097 1400097
> >>
> >>   did you build from ports or poudriere?
> >>  From ports.
> >>
> >> If the
> >>> latter, what's the /etc/make.conf contain?
> >>>
> >>> Please post sysctl -a | grep aslr
> >>>
> >>
> >> kern.elf32.aslr.shared_page: 0
> >> kern.elf32.aslr.stack: 1
> >> kern.elf32.aslr.honor_sbrk: 0
> >> kern.elf32.aslr.pie_enable: 0
> >> kern.elf32.aslr.enable: 0
> >> kern.elf64.aslr.shared_page: 1
> >> kern.elf64.aslr.stack: 1
> >> kern.elf64.aslr.honor_sbrk: 0
> >> kern.elf64.aslr.pie_enable: 1
> >> kern.elf64.aslr.enable: 1
> >> vm.aslr_restarts: 256
> >>
> >> I did the esr build to test the build setup, since also the pkg in the
> >> official pkg repo behaves the same i.e the one before 115.5 since
> >> 115.5 did not hit the pkg repo yet, which works without aslr (set by
> >> proccontrol) So unless 116 introduces something which requires sysctl
> >> changes for the building tool chain while building my test should be
> >> valid.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> /jsm
> >>
> >>
> > Hi
> > Just FYI
> > I have managed to cross-compile firefox115-esr on amd64 to aaarhc64 so
> > that takes me ~20 min compute time to compile as opposed to 5-7 hours on
> > my arm boards... I think it broke somewhere between 115 and 116, but now
> > bisecting is doable to the extend the port patches allows. Can someone
> > btw tell me hove the libwebrtc patches are generated..?
> >
> I build and bisected with --disable-webrtc so I did not need the patches
> for that..
> It breaks here:
> changeset:   743155:5c5cf716aa0b
> user:        Jan de Mooij <jdemooij@mozilla.com>
> date:        Wed Jun 07 16:34:51 2023 +0000
> summary:     Bug 1835876 part 2 - Disable code write protection in
> content processes. r=nbp
>
> [root@freebsd2 /tmp3/bisect/mozilla-unified]# hg log -r 743154
> changeset:   743154:028f981600d7
> user:        Jan de Mooij <jdemooij@mozilla.com>
> date:        Wed Jun 07 16:34:51 2023 +0000
> summary:     Bug 1835876 part 1 - Remove unused
> ProtectionSetting::Protected. r=nbp
>
> Related to w^x.. I can only make it work by reverting the whole of the
> two above commits...
> (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=271081#c7) Still
> disabling aslr is required
> /Jsm
>
>

-- 
Nuno Teixeira
FreeBSD Committer (ports)