[CFT/HEADSUP] Ports now have Stack Protector support

[Eitan Adler]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:
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> 21.09.2013, 18:26, "Nathan Whitehorn" <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>:
>> On 09/21/13 09:09, Bryan Drewery wrote:
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>>>  On 9/21/2013 9:00 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>>>  On 09/21/13 05:47, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>>>>>  Ports now support enabling Stack Protector [1] support on FreeBSD 10
>>>>>  i386 and amd64, and older releases on amd64 only currently.
>>>>  Why only those architectures?
>>>>  -Nathan
>>>  I was only able to test on amd64 and i386. And that took 37 exp-runs
>>>  over a month.
>>>
>>>  See commit and CHANGES for more discussion on why not i386 on <10:
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>>>  http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=327697
>>
>> OK. If I set this on powerpc anyway, will it turn on? I'm happy to
>> (slowly) test it there.
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> AFAIU, it's pointless to use stack protector on ppc because stack smashing
> attacks are just impossible here.

Could you explain why?

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Eitan Adler