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On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 17:29:26 -0500 |
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"Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 01/09/2014 05:21 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > Dnia 2014-01-09, o godz. 17:06:52 |
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> > "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> napisał(a): |
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> >> On 01/09/2014 04:57 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> >>> What are the advantages of disabling SSP to deserve that "special" |
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> >>> handling via USE flag or easily disabling it appending the flag? |
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> >> There are some cases where ssp could break things. I know of once case |
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> >> right now, but its somewhat exotic. Also, sometimes we *want* to break |
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> >> things for testing. I'm thinking here of instance where we want to test |
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> >> a pax hardened kernel to see if it catches abuses of memory which would |
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> >> otherwise be caught by executables emitted from a hardened toolchain. |
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> >> Take a look at the app-admin/paxtest suite. |
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> > Just to be clear, are we talking about potential system-wide breakage |
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> > or single, specific packages being broken by SSP? In other words, are |
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> > there cases when people will really want to disable SSP completely? |
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> > Unless I'm misunderstanding something, your examples sound like you |
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> > just want -fno-stack-protector per-package. I don't really think you |
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> > actually want to rebuild whole gcc just to do some testing on a single |
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> > package... |
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> Or just as easily set -fno-stack-protector in CFLAGS in make.conf. |
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> I never felt manipulating cflags with use flags was a great idea, but in |
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> this case is does feel extra pointless. |
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> Personally I don't feel this is needed, and the added benefit of |
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> clearing up a bogus "noblah" use flag makes me smile. |
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> Zorry, do we really need this flag? |
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Yes, we do. I want a way to disable it at a toolchain level. |
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Ryan Hill psn: dirtyepic_sk |
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