[Bug]: StackTrace.NestedSignal in absl_stacktrace_test fails on ppc64le since 20250184.0

[musicinmybrain]

Describe the issue

Since the 20250814.0 release, the abseil-cpp package in Fedora fails to build on ppc64le due to a failure in StackTrace.NestedSignal in absl_stacktrace_test on the ppc64le architecture. This does not happen on the x86_64, i686, aarch64, or s390x architectures.

        Start  62: absl_stacktrace_test
 61/218 Test  #62: absl_stacktrace_test ...............................Subprocess aborted***Exception:   1.16 sec
Running main() from gmock_main.cc
[==========] Running 5 tests from 1 test suite.
[----------] Global test environment set-up.
[----------] 5 tests from StackTrace
[ RUN      ] StackTrace.FixupNoFixupEquivalence
/builddir/build/BUILD/abseil-cpp-20250814.0-build/abseil-cpp-20250814.0/absl/debugging/stacktrace_test.cc:107: Skipped
Frame pointers are required, but not guaranteed in OSS

[  SKIPPED ] StackTrace.FixupNoFixupEquivalence (0 ms)
[ RUN      ] StackTrace.FixupLowStackUsage
[       OK ] StackTrace.FixupLowStackUsage (2 ms)
[ RUN      ] StackTrace.CustomUnwinderPerformsFixup
[       OK ] StackTrace.CustomUnwinderPerformsFixup (0 ms)
[ RUN      ] StackTrace.CanonicalFrameAddresses
[       OK ] StackTrace.CanonicalFrameAddresses (0 ms)
[ RUN      ] StackTrace.NestedSignal
absl_stacktrace_test: /builddir/build/BUILD/abseil-cpp-20250814.0-build/abseil-cpp-20250814.0/absl/debugging/internal/stacktrace_powerpc-inl.inc:117: void** NextStackFrame(void**, const void*) [with bool STRICT_UNWINDING = true; bool IS_WITH_CONTEXT = true]: Assertion `false && "VDSO is present, but doesn't have expected symbol"' failed.

Steps to reproduce the problem

I tried the following on emulated ppc64le hardware – anyone can do this by running a ppc64le version of Fedora 41 via qemu-user-system; I used a mock chroot with emulation via qemu-user-static.

$ git clone https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp.git
$ cd abseil-cpp
$ git checkout 20250814.0
$ cmake -S. -Bbuild -DABSL_BUILD_TESTING:BOOL=ON -DABSL_USE_EXTERNAL_GOOGLETEST:BOOL=ON -DABSL_FIND_GOOGLETEST:BOOL=ON
$ cmake --build build -j16 --verbose
$ ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure --force-new-ctest-process -j16 --exclude-regex 'absl_(symbolize|mutex|btree)_test'

I excluded absl_symbolize_test because it failed in emulation only, which I didn’t consider significant; I excluded absl_mutex_test and absl_btree_test because they were painfully slow while working in emulation on an aarch64 laptop.

I was not able to reproduce this issue in emulation.

I repeated the above with Fedora’s C++ compiler flags,

export CXXFLAGS='-O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1  -m64 -mcpu=power8 -mtune=power8 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection'

and got the same result.

What version of Abseil are you using?

20250184.0

What operating system and version are you using?

Fedora Rawhide (44)

What compiler and version are you using?

Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=/usr/bin/gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/ppc64le-redhat-linux/15/lto-wrapper
OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none
OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1
Target: ppc64le-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --enable-bootstrap --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,ada,go,m2,lto --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --enable-targets=powerpcle-linux --disable-multilib --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --with-gcc-major-version-only --enable-libstdcxx-backtrace --with-libstdcxx-zoneinfo=/usr/share/zoneinfo --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --enable-plugin --enable-initfini-array --with-isl=/builddir/build/BUILD/gcc-15.2.1-build/gcc-15.2.1-20250808/obj-ppc64le-redhat-linux/isl-install --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --enable-offload-defaulted --without-cuda-driver --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-secureplt --with-long-double-128 --with-long-double-format=ieee --with-cpu-32=power8 --with-tune-32=power8 --with-cpu-64=power8 --with-tune-64=power8 --build=ppc64le-redhat-linux --with-build-config=bootstrap-lto --enable-link-serialization=1
Thread model: posix
Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd
gcc version 15.2.1 20250808 (Red Hat 15.2.1-1) (GCC) 

What build system are you using?

cmake version 3.31.6

CMake suite maintained and supported by Kitware (kitware.com/cmake).

Additional context

While I don’t have interactive access to real pp64le hardware, I’m happy to test candidate patches or do experiments to get additional information by performing non-interactive abseil-cpp package “scratch” builds on Fedora infrastructure.

This reminds me of #1804, which also appears only on ppc64le and is also difficult to reproduce in emulation.