Bug#1105086: firefox: Please disable wasm sandboxing on ppc64
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
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Source: firefox Version: 138.0.1-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: [email protected] Usertags: ppc64 X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] Hello, on ppc64 Firefox crashes on startup with wasm sandboxing enabled: #0 0x00007fff8ad96d5c in ?? () from /lib/powerpc64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 --Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging-- [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7fff8b474da0 (LWP 1421763))] (gdb) bt #0 0x00007fff8ad96d5c in ?? () from /lib/powerpc64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007fff8ad32834 in raise () from /lib/powerpc64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #2 0x00007fff80b83704 in nsProfileLock::FatalSignalHandler (signo=11, info=<optimized out>, context=0x7fffed50e0d0) at ./toolkit/profile/nsProfileLock.cpp:177 #3 <signal handler called> #4 i32_load8_u (mem=<optimized out>, addr=2016478208) at rlbox.wasm.c:146 #5 w2c_rlbox_streqci (var_p0=var_p0@entry=262000, var_p1=2016478208, instance=<optimized out>) at rlbox.wasm.c:55615 #6 0x00007fff7b2e78e8 in w2c_rlbox_getEncodingIndex (instance=<optimized out>, var_p0=<optimized out>) at rlbox.wasm.c:55548 This can be fixed by disabling wasm sandboxing similar to s390x [1]. Thus, please disable wasm sandboxing on ppc64 (see attached patch). Might even be a good idea to disable it for all big-endian targets. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/firefox/-/commit/c2a4ff612f4492182951be6055d088db9488e92d -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
ppc64-disable-wasm-sandboxing.diff
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--- debian/browser.mozconfig.in.orig 2025-05-10 13:56:10.768539645 -0700 +++ debian/browser.mozconfig.in 2025-05-10 10:44:18.060482533 -0700 @@ -30,6 +30,6 @@ ac_add_options --with-unsigned-addon-scopes=app,system ac_add_options --allow-addon-sideload ac_add_options --enable-alsa -%if DIST == bullseye || DEB_HOST_ARCH == s390x +%if DIST == bullseye || DEB_HOST_ARCH == s390x || DEB_HOST_ARCH == ppc64 ac_add_options --without-wasm-sandboxed-libraries %endif