Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Problem with mount.cifs

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Hey,

Quoting Andrzej Odyniec <an...@ma...>:
> As You can see, mount.cifs found realpath not in glibc but in libsafe (!).
>
>> root@DesignerVM32:/var # objdump -t /lib/libsafe.so.2|grep realpath
>> 0000501c l     O .bss   00000004              real_realpath.4419
>> 00001ec0 g     F .text  00000154              realpath
>
> Indeed, in libsafe library realpath function is present, perhaps  
> safer because
> of protecting second argument from overflow, but probably not accepting (at
> least 32-bit) as the second argument of NULL or has some other defect.
>
> So, probably problem is with libsafe, not in glibc.

That would explain why it works on the 64 bit version, since libsafe  
is disabled there.

You can easily test this. Delete the file /etc/ld.so.preload.
Not sure if you have to bounce or not.

I would be open to completely removing libsafe from DL. It hasn't been  
updated in a decade...

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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org