From what I can see the only platform this drops support for is CentOS
7. CentOS 7 reached the end of it's "full update" support at the end of
2020. It does receive maintenance updates until 2024, however I don't
think supporting glibc 2.17 until 2024 is realistic. Note that anyone
wanting to self-compile and target a glibc 2.17 runtime could build with
--disable-threadlocal.
glibc 2.18 was released in August 2013.
https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00160.html
It is important that binaries request a standard interpreter location
where most distros would place the linker-loader. Otherwise, the user
would be met with a very confusing message:
bash: <path>/<to>/bitcoind: No such file or directory
When really it's the interpreter that's not found.
These test-*-check scripts should compile "test" binaries in a way that
is as close to what autotools would do, since the goal is to make sure
that if we run the *-check script, they can correctly detect flaws in
binaries which are compiled by our autotools-based system.
Therefore, we should emulate what happens when the binary is linked in
autotools, meaning that for C binaries, we need to supply the CFLAGS,
CPPFLAGS, and LDFLAGS flags in that order.
Note to future developers: perhaps it'd be nice to have these
test-*-check scripts be part of configure.ac to avoid having to manually
replicate autoconf-like behaviour every time we find a discrepancy. Of
course, that would also mean you'd have to write more m4...
Now that our release binaries are build in a glibc 2.24 and 2.27
environment, we can't use a symbol from glibc 2.28 to test our checks.
Replace renameat2() with nextup(), which was introduced in 2.24.
Note that this also means re-disabling the test for RISC-V, however
RISC-V is built in a glibc 2.27 environment, and our minimum required
glibc for that binary is 2.27.
This is important to make sure that we're not testing tools different
from the one we're building with.
Introduce determine_wellknown_cmd, which encapsulates how we
should handle well-known tools specification (IFS splitting, env
override, etc.).
e8cd3700ee devtools: Integrate ARCH_MIN_GLIBC_VER table into MAX_VERSIONS in symbol-check.py (W. J. van der Laan)
a33381acf5 devtools: Add xkb version to symbol-check (W. J. van der Laan)
19e598bab0 devtools: Fix verneed section parsing in pixie (W. J. van der Laan)
Pull request description:
I misunderstood the ELF specification for version symbols (verneed): The `vn_aux` pointer is relative to the main verneed record, not the start of the section.
This caused many symbols to not be versioned properly in the return value of `elf.dyn_symbols`. This was discovered in #21454.
Fix it by correcting the offset computation.
- xkb versions symbols (using the prefix `V`), as this library is used by bitcoin-qt, add it to the valid versions in `symbol-check.py`
This unfortunately brings to light some symbols that have been introduced since and weren't caught (from a gitian compile of master):
```
bitcoin-cli: symbol getrandom from unsupported version GLIBC_2.25
bitcoin-cli: failed IMPORTED_SYMBOLS
bitcoind: symbol getrandom from unsupported version GLIBC_2.25
bitcoind: symbol log from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoind: symbol fcntl64 from unsupported version GLIBC_2.28
bitcoind: symbol pow from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoind: symbol exp from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoind: failed IMPORTED_SYMBOLS
bitcoin-qt: symbol exp from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoin-qt: symbol fcntl64 from unsupported version GLIBC_2.28
bitcoin-qt: symbol log from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoin-qt: symbol pow from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoin-qt: symbol statx from unsupported version GLIBC_2.28
bitcoin-qt: symbol getrandom from unsupported version GLIBC_2.25
bitcoin-qt: symbol renameat2 from unsupported version GLIBC_2.28
bitcoin-qt: symbol getentropy from unsupported version GLIBC_2.25
bitcoin-qt: failed IMPORTED_SYMBOLS
bitcoin-wallet: symbol exp from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoin-wallet: symbol log from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
bitcoin-wallet: symbol fcntl64 from unsupported version GLIBC_2.28
bitcoin-wallet: failed IMPORTED_SYMBOLS
test_bitcoin: symbol getrandom from unsupported version GLIBC_2.25
test_bitcoin: symbol log from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
test_bitcoin: symbol fcntl64 from unsupported version GLIBC_2.28
test_bitcoin: symbol pow from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
test_bitcoin: symbol exp from unsupported version GLIBC_2.29
test_bitcoin: failed IMPORTED_SYMBOLS
```
ACKs for top commit:
hebasto:
ACK e8cd3700ee
Tree-SHA512: 8c15e3478eb642f01a1ddaadef03f80583f088f9fa8e3bf171ce16b0ec05ffb4675ec147d7ffc6a4360637ed47fca517c6ca2bac7bb30d794c03783cfb964b79
The (ancient) versions specified here were deceptive. Entries older than
MAX_VERSIONS['GLIBC'], which is 2.17, are ignored here. So reorganize
the code to avoid confusion for other people reading this code.
I misunderstood the ELF specification for version symbols (verneed):
The `vn_aux` pointer is relative to the main verneed record, not the
start of the section.
This caused many symbols to not be versioned properly in the return
value of `elf.dyn_symbols`. This was discovered in #21454.
Fix it by correcting the offset computation.
Clangs Darwin driver should infer the SDK version used during compilation, and
forward that through to the linker. Add a check that this has been done, and the
expected SDK version is set.
Should help prevent issues like #21771 in future.
We use linker flags (-Wl,--major/minor-subsystem-version) to set the
minimum required version of Windows needed to run our binaries. This
adds a sanity check that the version is being set as expected.
We use a compile flag (-mmacosx-version-min) to set the minimum required
version of macOS needed to run our binaries. This adds a sanity check
that the version is being set as expected.
Because only macOS wasy mentioned, I was unsure if this would be a macOS specific tool. I guess Linux is more used than Mac, so Linux guide should be there, too.
remove fix_configure_mac.patch
Fixed upstream: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-67286
remove fix_riscv64_arch.patch
Was fixed upstream in 6a39e49a6cdeb28a04a3657bb6a22f848d5dfa9d
remove fix_rcc_determinism.patch
Fixed upstream in https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-62511
remove freetype_back_compat.patch
By the time we ship a release with Qt 5.12, we'll certainly no-longer be
supporting Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 ships with FreeType 2.6.1,
which is new enough that using the symbol is no-longer an issue.
The renaming of FT_Get_X11_Font_Format() happened in FreeType 2.6
remove xkb-default.patch
This was removed upstream in d5abf545971da717014d316127045fc19edbcd65
Co-authored-by: Hennadii Stepanov <32963518+hebasto@users.noreply.github.com>
a0a771843f contrib: Changes to checks for PowerPC64 (Luke Dashjr)
634f6ec4eb contrib: Parse ELF directly for symbol and security checks (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Pull request description:
Instead of the ever-messier text parsing of the output of the readelf tool (which is clearly meant for human consumption not to be machine parseable), parse the ELF binaries directly.
Add a small dependency-less ELF parser specific to the checks.
This is slightly more secure, too, because it removes potential ambiguity due to misparsing and changes in the output format of `elfread`. It also allows for stricter and more specific ELF format checks in the future.
This removes the build-time dependency for `readelf`.
It passes the test-security-check for me locally, ~~though I haven't checked on all platforms~~. I've checked that this works on the cross-compile output for all ELF platforms supported by Bitcoin Core at the moment, as well as PPC64 LE and BE.
Top commit has no ACKs.
Tree-SHA512: 7f9241fec83ee512642fecf5afd90546964561efd8c8c0f99826dcf6660604a4db2b7255e1afb1e9bb0211fd06f5dbad18a6175dfc03e39761a40025118e7bfc
6690adba08 Warn when binaries are built from a dirty branch. (Tyler Chambers)
Pull request description:
- Adjusted `--version` flag behavior in bitcoind and bitcoin-wallet to have the same behavior.
- Added `--version` flag to bitcoin-tx to match.
- Added functionality in gen-manpages.sh to error when attempting to generate man pages for binaries built from a dirty branch.
mitigates problem with issue #20412
ACKs for top commit:
laanwj:
Tested ACK 6690adba08
Tree-SHA512: b5ca509f1a57f66808c2bebc4b710ca00c6fec7b5ebd7eef58018e28e716f5f2358e36551b8a4df571bf3204baed565a297aeefb93990e7a99add502b97ee1b8
Check both failure cases:
- Use a glibc symbol from a version that is too new
- Use a symbol from a library that is not in the allowlist
And also check a conforming binary.
Adding a similar check for Windows PE can be done in a separate PR.
Adjusted version flag behavior in bitcoin-tx, bitcoin-wallet, and
bitcoind to match. Added functionality in gen-manpages.sh to warning when
attempting to generate man pages for binaries built from a dirty
branch.
fanquake