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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving more hardening features to default?
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:39:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111020233920.7e022c4f@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4E9FFAAB.2060802@gentoo.org

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On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:40:43 -0400
"Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org> wrote:

> USE=hardened refers to only toolchain hardening.  The problems there are
> mostly packages which break with PIE because they (ab)use assembly. 
> Things like virtualbox and some codecs.  This can become a thorny mess.
> 
> It would probably be nearly painless to bring in -D_FORTIFY_SOURCES=2
> and ssp into mainstream though.  Packages which break because of either
> of those two features are broken and should be fixed anyhow.

If any of these features (other than -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE) relies on spec rule
handling of preprocessor flags then I'd like you to try reimplementing them
another way. I'm going to hack 4.6 to work properly but I expect it to break
again with 4.7.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-21  5:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-20  8:47 [gentoo-dev] Moving more hardening features to default? "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-10-20 10:40 ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-10-20 10:46   ` Tomáš Chvátal
2011-10-20 12:41     ` Rich Freeman
2011-10-20 12:57       ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-20 14:36         ` Anthony G. Basile
2011-10-20 16:47           ` Rich Freeman
2011-10-20 17:17             ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-20 20:51               ` Magnus Granberg
2011-10-23  3:56                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2011-10-25 10:10                   ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-10-25 16:12                   ` Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
2011-10-27  1:13                     ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2011-10-20 11:46   ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego Elio Pettenò
2011-10-20 12:49     ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-21  5:39   ` Ryan Hill [this message]
2011-10-20 12:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
2011-10-21  3:20   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-10-21 12:13     ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-21 15:25       ` Duncan
2011-10-21 16:37         ` Magnus Granberg
2011-10-25 14:18 ` [gentoo-dev] " Kacper Kowalik
2011-10-25 14:46   ` Patrick Lauer
2011-10-25 15:11   ` Rich Freeman
2011-10-25 15:38     ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."

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