Bug 239873 - www/firefox and mail/thunderbird don't like the new ASLR "stackgap" feature
Summary: www/firefox and mail/thunderbird don't like the new ASLR "stackgap" feature
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-gecko (Nobody)
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Reported: 2019-08-15 09:39 UTC by sigsys
Modified: 2020-05-08 12:22 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description sigsys 2019-08-15 09:39:44 UTC 
Both fail with a "too much recursion" error message during start up.

I'm guessing the feature confuses them about the depth of the stack somehow.

Tested on 12.0-STABLE r351060.

They both work fine with the stackgap sysctls set to 0.

And they both have been working fine with the other ASLR features on ever since this was committed to 12-STABLE BTW.
Comment 1 Greg V 2020-05-08 12:22:12 UTC 
hm, according to https://wiki.freebsd.org/ASLR the base ntpd also doesn't like stackgap..