Unsupported relocation kind 0003 for __GSHandlerCheck in libcamlrun.lib(intern.obj)

[whitequark]

I'm getting this when building OCaml 4.03.0 for x64 with bootstrapped flexlink and Visual Studio 2015. The relocation kind is IMAGE_REL_AMD64_ADDR32NB. I have not yet investigated exactly what that means.

[whitequark]

This is a SEH relocation. It appears because the /GS switch uses SEH to indicate the failure of stack cookie validation. The error can be fixed by adding -GS- to BYTECC and NATIVECC in config/Makefile.

I decided to not implement this relocation because it is not clear to me how exactly that works, and given the high effort required for verifying a code path that in all likelihood will never be invoked, I opt to not risk including a broken implementation in flexdll.

[whitequark]

The workaround does not work if one wishes to link with the libucrt.lib (the static C runtime library from Visual Studio 2015, as explained here), since that is built with /GS also. The workaround is to link the dynamic runtime library ucrt.lib.

[dra27]

I've not seen this - is it still the case and is there an easy repro case?

[whitequark]

@dra27 I don't see any reason this would be fixed. As for the repro case--sure, as described in the first comment, building OCaml using VS2015 and the default Makefile.config is enough IIRC.

[dra27]

I've been building x64 4.03.0 and 4.04.0 with VS2015 with no problems for ages - including all the work I'm presently doing. Do you see the same thing with trunk?

[whitequark]

OK, I will try again soon.

[bschommer]

I encountered a similar issue when compiling zarith with the VS2015 and used /z7 for generating debug information.

[jonahbeckford]

Just capturing for myself that I am getting this problem; don't have the time to investigate this properly. Much more time-consuming since this only appears on GitLab CI/CD.

But it does seem clear that we shouldn't be ignoring valid relocations, regardless of how they are triggered.

Problem

I recently switched to ucrt in https://github.com/jonahbeckford/flexdll/commits/0.43%2Bucrt, but haven't compiled the code that triggers this error before. There is a horrid mitigation for this issue which I will neither mention nor confirm.

Errors:

LINK: command "C:/GitLab-Runner/builds/diskuv/distributions/1.0/dksdk-ffi-ocaml/build/DkSDKFiles/cfg-Release/o/bin/flexlink.exe -noentry -o src\Std\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dll -U /out:src\Std\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dll -implib -L C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\lib\x64 -L C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\NETFXSDK\4.8\lib\um\x64 -L C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\lib\10.0.19041.0\ucrt\x64 -L C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\lib\10.0.19041.0\um\x64 -L C:\GitLab-Runner\builds\diskuv\distributions\1.0\dksdk-ffi-ocaml\build\DkSDKFiles\cfg-Release\o\lib\ocaml _deps\dksdk-ffi-c-build\src\dksdk_ffi_c-StaticExports.lib vcruntime.lib kernel32.lib advapi32.lib ws2_32.lib version.lib advapi32.lib ws2_32.lib version.lib _deps\c-capnproto-build\CapnC_Runtime-StaticExports.lib Rpcrt4.lib -custom-crt ucrt.lib -chain msvc64 -stack 33554432 -L C:\GitLab-Runner\builds\diskuv\distributions\1.0\dksdk-ffi-ocaml\build\DkSDKFiles\cfg-Release\o\lib\ocaml _deps\dksdk-ffi-c-build\src\dksdk_ffi_c-StaticExports.lib vcruntime.lib kernel32.lib advapi32.lib ws2_32.lib version.lib advapi32.lib ws2_32.lib version.lib _deps\c-capnproto-build\CapnC_Runtime-StaticExports.lib Rpcrt4.lib libasmrun.lib src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\stdexport-entry.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\ffi_bytes.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_callback.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_cls_builder.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_generic.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_instance.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_keyedvalue.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_retval.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\ffi_host_segment.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\ffi_uuids.c.obj -- /nologo /pdb:src\Std\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.pdb /dll /version:0.0 /machine:x64 /INCREMENTAL:NO /MANIFEST /MANIFESTFILE:src\Std\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dll.manifest" failed (exit code 2) with the following output:
** Fatal error: Unsupported relocation kind 0003 for __GSHandlerCheck in _deps\dksdk-ffi-c-build\src\dksdk_ffi_c-StaticExports.lib(_deps\dksdk-ffi-c-build\src\CMakeFiles\dksdk_ffi_c-StaticExports.dir\sha256.c.obj)

and

Visual Studio Non-Incremental Link
LINK:
C:/GitLab-Runner/builds/diskuv/distributions/1.0/dksdk-ffi-ocaml/build/DkSDKFiles/cfg-Release/o/bin/flexlink.exe -noentry -o src\Std\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dll -U /out:src\Std\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dll -implib -L C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\lib\x64 -L C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\NETFXSDK\4.8\lib\um\x64 -L C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\lib\10.0.19041.0\ucrt\x64 -L C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\lib\10.0.19041.0\um\x64 -L C:\GitLab-Runner\builds\diskuv\distributions\1.0\dksdk-ffi-ocaml\build\DkSDKFiles\cfg-Release\o\lib\ocaml _deps\dksdk-ffi-c-build\src\dksdk_ffi_c-StaticExports.lib vcruntime.lib kernel32.lib advapi32.lib ws2_32.lib version.lib advapi32.lib ws2_32.lib version.lib _deps\c-capnproto-build\CapnC_Runtime-StaticExports.lib Rpcrt4.lib -custom-crt ucrt.lib -chain msvc64 -stack 33554432 -L C:\GitLab-Runner\builds\diskuv\distributions\1.0\dksdk-ffi-ocaml\build\DkSDKFiles\cfg-Release\o\lib\ocaml _deps\dksdk-ffi-c-build\src\dksdk_ffi_c-StaticExports.lib vcruntime.lib kernel32.lib advapi32.lib ws2_32.lib version.lib advapi32.lib ws2_32.lib version.lib _deps\c-capnproto-build\CapnC_Runtime-StaticExports.lib Rpcrt4.lib libasmrun.lib src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\stdexport-entry.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\ffi_bytes.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_callback.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_cls_builder.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_generic.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_instance.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_keyedvalue.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_retval.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\ffi_host_segment.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\ffi_uuids.c.obj -- /nologo /pdb:src\Std\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.pdb /dll /version:0.0 /machine:x64 /INCREMENTAL:NO /MANIFEST /MANIFESTFILE:src\Std\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dll.manifest
LINK: command "C:/GitLab-Runner/builds/diskuv/distributions/1.0/dksdk-ffi-ocaml/build/DkSDKFiles/cfg-Release/o/bin/flexlink.exe -noentry -o src\Std\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dll -U /out:src\Std\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dll -implib -L C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\lib\x64 -L C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\NETFXSDK\4.8\lib\um\x64 -L C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\lib\10.0.19041.0\ucrt\x64 -L C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\lib\10.0.19041.0\um\x64 -L C:\GitLab-Runner\builds\diskuv\distributions\1.0\dksdk-ffi-ocaml\build\DkSDKFiles\cfg-Release\o\lib\ocaml _deps\dksdk-ffi-c-build\src\dksdk_ffi_c-StaticExports.lib vcruntime.lib kernel32.lib advapi32.lib ws2_32.lib version.lib advapi32.lib ws2_32.lib version.lib _deps\c-capnproto-build\CapnC_Runtime-StaticExports.lib Rpcrt4.lib -custom-crt ucrt.lib -chain msvc64 -stack 33554432 -L C:\GitLab-Runner\builds\diskuv\distributions\1.0\dksdk-ffi-ocaml\build\DkSDKFiles\cfg-Release\o\lib\ocaml _deps\dksdk-ffi-c-build\src\dksdk_ffi_c-StaticExports.lib vcruntime.lib kernel32.lib advapi32.lib ws2_32.lib version.lib advapi32.lib ws2_32.lib version.lib _deps\c-capnproto-build\CapnC_Runtime-StaticExports.lib Rpcrt4.lib libasmrun.lib src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\stdexport-entry.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\ffi_bytes.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_callback.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_cls_builder.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_generic.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_instance.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_keyedvalue.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\dksdk_ffi_ocaml_retval.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\ffi_host_segment.c.obj src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\ffi_uuids.c.obj -- /nologo /pdb:src\Std\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.pdb /dll /version:0.0 /machine:x64 /INCREMENTAL:NO /MANIFEST /MANIFESTFILE:src\Std\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dll.manifest" failed (exit code 2) with the following output:
** Fatal error: Unsupported relocation kind 0003 for __GSHandlerCheck in src\Std\CMakeFiles\DkSDKFFIOCaml_StdShared.dir\core\ffi_uuids.c.obj