On 2019-01-10 10:46 a.m., Michael Biebl wrote: >>> Dave, can you test attached patch on hppa and report back with the results? >> Your fix looks correct to me. I'll try to test in the next day or two >> on hppa. Does it work on x86? > I've built the package on amd64 with this patch applied. > I quickly ran hardening-check on the resulting binaries and they all showed > Position Independent Executable: yes > and the system booted successly without any apparent breakage. > > I didn't specifically test i386. Do you expect any issues there? No. The main reason hppa is sensitive to this problem is that there is a significant difference between PIC and non PIC code.
Dave -- John David Anglin dave.ang...@bell.net
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