library broken with glibc 2.41

[cowlicks]

I'm on arch linux, I upgraded my system yesterday, and this library stopped working. It looks like it is do to a change in glibc.

I've copied some info about my system below. I've created a small repo to reproduce this bug here. At the end I show the error I get from running node index.js in the repo (the code is just the example from this repo).

$ uname -a
Linux banjo 6.13.1-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun, 02 Feb 2025 01:02:29 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ pacman -Q glibc libsodium nodejs
glibc 2.41+r2+g0a7c7a3e283a-1
libsodium 1.0.20-1
nodejs 23.7.0-1
ldd (GNU libc) 2.41

$ ldd --version
Copyright (C) 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.

$ ldd node_modules/sodium-native/prebuilds/linux-x64/sodium-native.node
ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `node_modules/sodium-native/prebuilds/linux-x64/sodium-native.node'
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007461eb4bd000)
	libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007461eb196000)
	/usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007461eb4bf000)


$ ls -l node_modules/sodium-native/prebuilds/linux-x64/sodium-native.node
-rw-r--r-- 1 blake blake 1047056 Feb  5 11:24 node_modules/sodium-native/prebuilds/linux-x64/sodium-native.node

$ grep 'glibc' /var/log/pacman.log | tail -n 4
[2024-08-10T13:11:27-0400] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-glibc (2.39+r52+gf8e4623421-1 -> 2.40+r16+gaa533d58ff-2)
[2025-02-04T12:02:35-0500] [ALPM] upgraded glibc (2.40+r16+gaa533d58ff-2 -> 2.41+r2+g0a7c7a3e283a-1)
[2025-02-04T12:03:28-0500] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-glibc (2.40+r16+gaa533d58ff-2 -> 2.41+r2+g0a7c7a3e283a-1)

$ nvm current
system

$ node --version
v23.7.0

$ cat package.json
{
  "dependencies": {
    "sodium-native": "^4.3.1"
  }
}

$ cat package-lock.json
{
  "name": "sodium_native_test",
  "lockfileVersion": 3,
  "requires": true,
  "packages": {
    "": {
      "dependencies": {
        "sodium-native": "^4.3.1"
      }
    },
    "node_modules/node-gyp-build": {
      "version": "4.8.4",
      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/node-gyp-build/-/node-gyp-build-4.8.4.tgz",
      "integrity": "sha512-LA4ZjwlnUblHVgq0oBF3Jl/6h/Nvs5fzBLwdEF4nuxnFdsfajde4WfxtJr3CaiH+F6ewcIB/q4jQ4UzPyid+CQ==",
      "license": "MIT",
      "bin": {
        "node-gyp-build": "bin.js",
        "node-gyp-build-optional": "optional.js",
        "node-gyp-build-test": "build-test.js"
      }
    },
    "node_modules/sodium-native": {
      "version": "4.3.1",
      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/sodium-native/-/sodium-native-4.3.1.tgz",
      "integrity": "sha512-YdP64gAdpIKHfL4ttuX4aIfjeunh9f+hNeQJpE9C8UMndB3zkgZ7YmmGT4J2+v6Ibyp6Wem8D1TcSrtdW0bqtg==",
      "license": "MIT",
      "dependencies": {
        "node-gyp-build": "^4.8.0"
      }
    }
  }
}

$ node index.js

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1914
  return process.dlopen(module, path.toNamespacedPath(filename));
                 ^

Error: /home/blake/tmp/borkedsodium/sodium_native_test/node_modules/sodium-native/prebuilds/linux-x64/sodium-native.node: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Invalid argument
    at Object..node (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1914:18)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1458:32)
    at Function._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1275:12)
    at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:322:14)
    at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:234:24)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1480:12)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:135:16)
    at load (/home/blake/tmp/borkedsodium/sodium_native_test/node_modules/node-gyp-build/node-gyp-build.js:22:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/blake/tmp/borkedsodium/sodium_native_test/node_modules/sodium-native/index.js:1:43)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1723:14) {
  code: 'ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED'
}

Node.js v23.7.0

[cowlicks]

It seems to be the same issue as this bug in julia

[pevey]

@cowlicks Ty so much for linking that Julia thread. There, I was able to find this tip.

If you're on Arch and updated to glibc 2.41+ and don't want to risk attempting to downgrade, you can use execstack as a workaround.

1. Install execstack AUR

yay -S execstack

2. use execstack on sodium-native inside your node_modules folder. E.g.,

execstack -c ./node_modules/.pnpm/sodium-native@4.3.1/node_modules/sodium-native/prebuilds/linux-x64/sodium-native.node