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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 something |
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> > to be fixed: rewrite the asm in a PIC way. But these days nobody |
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> > has the will to do it since this is mostly an issue on x86+pax, |
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> > both being slowly decreasing. |
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> Given that PaX has been stripped out of official Gentoo kernels due to |
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> the grsecurity licensing issue, I wonder if there is any other good |
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> reason to keep the "pic" USE flag today. Surely this affects a very |
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> 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 no |
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point in having them anymore. |
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