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From: Magnus Granberg <zorry@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardened meeting summary 2010-05-16
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 22:38:09
Message-Id: 201005180037.08101.zorry@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardened meeting summary 2010-05-16 by Ed W
1 måndag 17 maj 2010 22.28.05 skrev Ed W:
2 > On 16/05/2010 21:20, Magnus Granberg wrote:
3 > > Hi
4 > >
5 > > Here is the summary of the meeting 2010-05-16
6 > >
7 > > 1,0 Toolchain
8 > > We have an open bug #318171 for the merge of SSP and GCC>=4.4.3
9 > > support. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318171
10 > > We are waiting for toolchain to approve the changes to toolchain.eclass
11 > > and glibc that we need. Then we will have GCC 4.4.3 and 4.5.0 with full
12 > > hardened (PIE/SSP) support in the tree. Grub need to be bumped to the new
13 > > patchset.
14 > > We have no time line on it for we are waiting on toolchain.
15 >
16 > I see a comment in there: "Cleaned some code and removed SSP support for
17 > gcc 4.3.X " - I think this might need some watching and perhaps a
18 > warning here? Sounds like if you now update say a "stable" hardened
19 > amd64 machine pulling in stable gcc 4.3.X then you might be suddenly
20 > loosing your hardened compiler?
21 >
22 > I understand this is avoided if using your overlay, but it seems like a
23 > potential pitfall for anyone using the "stable" hardened tree?
24 >
25 > Can anyone comment if this is the case or I'm worrying over nothing?
26 >
27 > Ta
28 >
29 > Ed W
30 >
31 I only removed the code for default enable option for SSP. GCC 4.3.X still
32 support SSP if you add -fstack-protector. The GCC 4.4.3 is on the way to get
33 stable in 1-4 weeks i hope. Is up to the archs teams now to mark it stablel.
34
35 Hardened at gentoo.org
36 Magnus Granberg (Zorry)