Re: [gentoo-dev] Regarding the State of PaX in the tree

[Jason Zaman <jason@perfinion.com>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
> On 04/16/2018 11:14 AM, Hanno Böck wrote:
> > There's also another question related to this: What's the future for
> > Gentoo hardened?
> > From what I can tell hardened consists of:
> > * the things that try to make it compatible with grsec/pax
> >   (more or less obsolete).
> > * things that are now in default profiles anyway (aslr, stack
> >   protector).
> > * things that probably should be in default profiles (relro, now linker
> >   flags)
> > * -fstack-check, which should eventually be replaced with
> >   -fstack-clash-protection (only available in future gcc's) and that
> >   should probably also go into default profiles.
> > * Furthermore hardened disables some useful features due to their
> >   incompatibility with pax (e.g. sanitizers).
> 
> Which let me wonder, what I would lose today by a switch from
> 17.0-hardened + USE-flags to 17.0/desktop/plasma at my KDE desktop?

Right now, the main things you'd lose are bindnow and
fstack-protector-all vs fstack-protector-strong i think. But in the
future as new hardening stuff is added to the toolchains they will
likely be enabled in hardened before default too.

-- Jason
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> Toralf
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