Skip to content

postject corrupts the .gnu.hash section of the binary in a Linux arm64 docker container #105

@joyeecheung

Description

@joyeecheung

Noticed in nodejs/node#59582, I can only reproduce it locally using docker. The Node.js devcontainer image is enough to reproduce this when run on an arm64 host:

docker pull nodejs/devcontainer:nightly
docker run -it nodejs/devcontainer:nightly

In the container:

echo 'console.log("hello")' > hello.js
echo '{"main":"./hello.js", "output":"./sea-prep.blob"}' > sea-config.json
node --experimental-sea-config sea-config.json
cp `which node` ./hello
readelf -x .gnu.hash ./hello | head -n 100 # shows the section filled with the symbol lookup table
npx postject hello NODE_SEA_BLOB sea-prep.blob --sentinel-fuse NODE_SEA_FUSE_fce680ab2cc467b6e072b8b5df1996b2
readelf -x .gnu.hash ./hello | head -n 100 # shows a bunch of zeros

This does not reproduce on a bare-metal Linux arm64 server, or Linux x64 (bare-metal or in docker), which I think is why in the Node.js pull request it only fails in the GitHub action on Linux arm64.

The result of this is that the produced Node.js SEA cannot load any addons using process.dlopen(), because it cannot look up the napi_* symbols from itself (the same can be said about any other non-napi addons, which rely on the same mechanism to look up symbols from the binary to load the addons).

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions