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[PATCH] Fix building with --enable-nss-crypt.


Some configurations may use NSS cryptographic routines but have no static
library for those routines. The following changes allow glibc to be built and
tested with --enable-nss-crypt, but without having a static NSS library.

At a high level the change does two things:

(1) Detect at configure time if static NSS crypto libraries are available.
    Assumes libfreebl3.a (instead of the existing Fedora libfreebl.a which
    is incomplete) which matches libfreebl3.so.

(2) If static NSS crypto libraries are _not_ available then adjust the way in
    which we build tst-linkall-static. This includes excluding a reference to
    crypt and not linking against libcrypt.a, all of which will fail otherwise.
  
In Fedora the NSS cryptographic component is not built as a static library
because of security considerations.

In this case libcrypt.a is effectively useless, since it has symbol dependencies
on NSS cryptographic routines that can not be resolved. A future cleanup could
be to remove libcrypt.a entirely if you can't possibly use it without having
a static NSS cryptographic library. Alternatively we could add a static link
warning e.g. "This version of libcrypt.a has been compiled with NSS
cryptographic support and requires that you link with a static NSS cryptographic
implementation." I'm not entirely sure which might be better in the future.
Again this is just a future consideration, this current patch does not change
these behaviours, it simply makes it possible to continue building and testing
with --enable-nss-crypt in Fedora.

This patch still allows other distributions to make a different choice and
provide a static NSS crypto library to use with an --enable-nss-crypt build of
glibc. However I should note that the support for this is not entirely in place
in glibc since statically linking against libcrypt.a with NSS crypto support
requires explicitly adding libfreebl3.a to several places to complete a
successfull link. The only easy solution is a libcrypt.a linker script which
pulls in both static archives as required. I am not going to implement this
because we don't currently need it, but I tested it manually anyway just to
make sure the idea is sound and nothing here breaks horribly.

Testing assumptions:
* Static library is named libfreebl3.a (not libfreebl.a as is currently provided
  in Fedora), matching libfreebl3.so shared link name.

Tested on x86_64 on Fedora with:
(a) --enable-nss-crypt, with no static NSS library support: PASS (previous FAIL)
(b) --enable-nss-crypt, with faked static NSS library support: PASS (unsupported)
	* Requires changing elf/Makefile to include a stub /lib64/libfreebl3.a
	  for testing purposes.
(c) --disable-nss-crypt: PASS (default)

No regressions on x86_64.

OK to checkin?

2016-11-17  Carlos O'Donell  <carlos@redhat.com>

	* configure.ac: Test for static NSS cryptographic libraries and set
	libc_cv_static_nss_crypt.
	* configure: Regenerate.
	* config.make.in (static-nss-crypt): Define.
	* elf/Makefile (CFLAGS-tst-linkall-static.c): Define.
	[ifeq (yesno,$(nss-crypt)$(static-nss-crypt))]
	(CFLAGS-tst-linkall-static.c): Define.
	($(objpfx)tst-linkall-static): Remove libcrypt.a.
	[ifeq (yesyes,$(nss-crypt)$(static-nss-crypt))]
	($(objpfx)tst-linkall-static): Define.
	[ifeq (no,$(nss-crypt))] ($(objpfx)tst-linkall-static): Define.
	* elf/tst-linkall-static.c [USE_CRYPT](references): Reference crypt().

diff --git a/config.make.in b/config.make.in
index 04a8b3e..d2d9b8a 100644
--- a/config.make.in
+++ b/config.make.in
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ multi-arch = @multi_arch@
 mach-interface-list = @mach_interface_list@
 
 nss-crypt = @libc_cv_nss_crypt@
+static-nss-crypt = @libc_cv_static_nss_crypt@
 
 # Configuration options.
 build-shared = @shared@
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index de0a40f..d719fad 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -321,6 +321,7 @@ void f (void) { NSSLOW_Init (); }])],
 	     AC_MSG_ERROR([
 cannot find NSS headers with lowlevel hash function interfaces]))
   old_LIBS="$LIBS"
+  old_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
   LIBS="$LIBS -lfreebl3"
   AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([typedef int PRBool;
 #include <hasht.h>
@@ -329,12 +330,25 @@ cannot find NSS headers with lowlevel hash function interfaces]))
 		 libc_cv_nss_crypt=yes,
 		 AC_MSG_ERROR([
 cannot link program using lowlevel NSS hash functions]))
+  # Check to see if there is a static NSS cryptographic library.
+  # If there isn't then we can't link anything with libcrypt.a,
+  # and that might mean disabling some static tests.
+  LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -static"
+  AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([typedef int PRBool;
+#include <hasht.h>
+#include <nsslowhash.h>],
+				  [NSSLOW_Init();])],
+		 libc_cv_static_nss_crypt=yes,
+		 libc_cv_static_nss_crypt=no)
+  LDFLAGS="$old_LDFLAGS"
   CFLAGS="$old_CFLAGS"
   LIBS="$old_LIBS"
 else
   libc_cv_nss_crypt=no
+  libc_cv_static_nss_crypt=no
 fi
 AC_SUBST(libc_cv_nss_crypt)
+AC_SUBST(libc_cv_static_nss_crypt)
 
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([obsolete-rpc],
diff --git a/elf/Makefile b/elf/Makefile
index 82c7e05..a5868d4 100644
--- a/elf/Makefile
+++ b/elf/Makefile
@@ -330,6 +330,16 @@ $(objpfx)tst-_dl_addr_inside_object: $(objpfx)dl-addr-obj.os
 CFLAGS-tst-_dl_addr_inside_object.c += $(PIE-ccflag)
 endif
 
+# By default tst-linkall-static should try to use crypt routines to test
+# static libcrypt use.
+CFLAGS-tst-linkall-static.c = -DUSE_CRYPT=1
+# However, if we are using NSS crypto and we don't have a static
+# library, then we exclude the use of crypt functions in the test.
+# We similarly exclude libcrypt.a from the static link (see below).
+ifeq (yesno,$(nss-crypt)$(static-nss-crypt))
+CFLAGS-tst-linkall-static.c = -DUSE_CRYPT=0
+endif
+
 include ../Rules
 
 ifeq (yes,$(build-shared))
@@ -1280,12 +1290,30 @@ $(objpfx)tst-ldconfig-X.out : tst-ldconfig-X.sh $(objpfx)ldconfig
 
 $(objpfx)tst-dlsym-error: $(libdl)
 
+# Test static linking of all the libraries we can possibly link
+# together.  Note that in some configurations this may be less than the
+# complete list of libraries we build but we try to maxmimize this list.
 $(objpfx)tst-linkall-static: \
   $(common-objpfx)math/libm.a \
-  $(common-objpfx)crypt/libcrypt.a \
   $(common-objpfx)resolv/libresolv.a \
   $(common-objpfx)dlfcn/libdl.a \
   $(common-objpfx)login/libutil.a \
   $(common-objpfx)rt/librt.a \
   $(common-objpfx)resolv/libanl.a \
-  $(static-thread-library) \
+  $(static-thread-library)
+
+# If we are using NSS crypto and we have the ability to link statically
+# then we include libcrypt.a, otherwise we leave out libcrypt.a and
+# link as much as we can into the tst-linkall-static test.  This assumes
+# that linking with libcrypt.a does everything required to include the
+# static NSS crypto library.
+ifeq (yesyes,$(nss-crypt)$(static-nss-crypt))
+$(objpfx)tst-linkall-static: \
+  $(common-objpfx)crypt/libcrypt.a
+endif
+# If we are not using NSS crypto then we always have the ability to link
+# with libcrypt.a.
+ifeq (no,$(nss-crypt))
+$(objpfx)tst-linkall-static: \
+  $(common-objpfx)crypt/libcrypt.a
+endif
diff --git a/elf/tst-linkall-static.c b/elf/tst-linkall-static.c
index 7a4aacc..cc77f07 100644
--- a/elf/tst-linkall-static.c
+++ b/elf/tst-linkall-static.c
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ void *references[] =
   {
     &pow,                       /* libm */
     &pthread_create,            /* libpthread */
+#if USE_CRYPT
     &crypt,                     /* libcrypt */
+#endif
     &res_send,                  /* libresolv */
     &dlopen,                    /* libdl */
     &login,                     /* libutil */
---
Cheers,
Carlos.


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