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Message-ID: <CAH8yC8niDs4aTXa-gtWyGhHi1t7zXgBYHrFnddJoYJ0CJY2jUw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 23:05:45 -0400
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com, Nickolai Belakovski <nbelakovski@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Fortran nested function causes a segfault when linked from
 a shared library.

On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 5:01 PM Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net> wrote:
>
> * Nickolai Belakovski <nbelakovski@...il.com> [2024-06-23 14:33:32 -0400]:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm having some trouble running a particular Fortran program I'm working on.
> > I've reduced it down to just a few lines of code and it seems that this
> > issue only occurs on musl.
> >
> > As the title indicates, when a Fortran subroutine has a nested subroutine,
> > and it passes
> > that subroutine to another subroutine, that second subroutine will segfault
> > when it tries
> > to call the passed nested subroutine. I know, it's quite a mouthful, it's
> > probably easier
> > if you look at the code:
> > https://github.com/nbelakovski/fortran_nested_func_musl
> >
> > I tried a handful of different compiler flags but I'm mostly just pulling
> > at straws here.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any help anyone could provide in terms of either
> > investigating this issue
> > further or hopefully fixing it.
>
>
> readelf -lW libalgorithm.so
> ...
>   GNU_STACK      0x000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x000000 0x000000 RWE 0x10
>
> musl does not support executable stack, but gcc implements
> nested functions via an on-stack trampolines that requires
> executable stack.
>
> i don't think there is a compiler flag to fix this, you
> have to change the code.

Also see <https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Trampolines.html>, and
the -fno-trampolines option.

Jeff

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