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On Tue, 26 May 2020 23:41:28 +0200 |
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zorry@g.o wrote: |
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> tisdag 26 maj 2020 kl. 19:54:51 CEST skrev Alexis Ballier: |
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> > On Tue, 26 May 2020 10:45:39 -0400 |
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> > Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > > Note that having the 'pic' useflag should be considered |
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> > > > something to be fixed: rewrite the asm in a PIC way. But these |
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> > > > days nobody has the will to do it since this is mostly an issue |
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> > > > on x86+pax, both being slowly decreasing. |
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> > > Given that PaX has been stripped out of official Gentoo kernels |
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> > > due to the grsecurity licensing issue, I wonder if there is any |
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> > > other good reason to keep the "pic" USE flag today. Surely this |
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> > > affects a very small population of users. |
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> > Yeah that was my thought when I saw pax/grsec beginning to be more |
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> > hostile to open source. That's not my call but the hardened team's, |
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> > however I'm all for removing these workarounds entirely if there's |
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> > no point in having them anymore. |
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> Is not only PaX/Grsec that don't allow textrel. SELinux do it to and |
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> that is manline kernel. |
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k so that means there's no dropping the pic useflag then i guess |
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