Re: Initial implementation of _FORTIFY_SOURCE

From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert_at_cschubert.com>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 18:09:24 UTC
In message <f8000e6b-226b-45f3-a751-aca790f4f8c8@FreeBSD.org>, Kyle Evans 
write
s:
> Hi,
>
> As of 9bfd3b407 ("Add a build knob for _FORTIFY_SOURCE"), I've imported 
> an initial version of FORTIFY_SOURCE from FreeBSD.  FORTIFY_SOURCE is an 
> improvement over classical SSP, doing compiler-aided checking of stack 
> object sizes to detect more fine-grained stack overflow without relying 
> on the randomized stack canary just past the stack frame.
>
> This implementation is not yet complete, but we've done a review of 
> useful functions and syscalls to add checked variants of and intend to 
> complete the implementation over the next month or so.
>
> Please test _FORTIFY_SOURCE out now by setting FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 in the 
> buildworld env -- I intend to flip the default to 2 when WITH_SSP is set 
> in the next month if nobody complains about serious breakage.  I've 
> personally been rolling with FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 for the last three years 
> that this has been sitting in a local branch, so I don't really 
> anticipate any super-fundamental breakage.

Should this trigger a __FreeBSD_version bump?


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