Busybox static problem

[amirmohammadeftekhar]

I'm using Debian 12 and I've installed busybox-static, but I get this error:
Error: Binary at /usr/bin/busybox is not static. Try 'apt install busybox-static'.

[Wenzel]

Hi @amirmohammadeftekhar
This message originates from this script:
https://github.com/IntelLabs/kafl.targets/blob/master/linux-user/scripts/gen_initrd.sh#L100

You need to check why the busybox binary is not static.

I just spined a Docker 12 container, installed busybox-static package and it's a statix executable:

root@43479522935d:/# ldd /usr/bin/busybox 
	not a dynamic executable
root@43479522935d:/# file /usr/bin/busybox 
/usr/bin/busybox: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=0ccb1a8ae9e516a28b1de29f8cfb9baed2b6fc32, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped
root@43479522935d:/# 

[amirmohammadeftekhar]

@Wenzel I get an output as the same as yours:

eftekhar@debian:~$ file /usr/bin/busybox 
/usr/bin/busybox: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=0ccb1a8ae9e516a28b1de29f8cfb9baed2b6fc32, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped
eftekhar@debian:~$ ldd /usr/bin/busybox 
	not a dynamic executable
eftekhar@debian:~$ 

[Wenzel]

ok, interesting

@amirmohammadeftekhar can you try out this branch please ?
IntelLabs/kafl.targets#47

[amirmohammadeftekhar]

@Wenzel I just switched to Ubuntu 22 from Debian 12, and the problem is solved. I cannot test it anymore.