On 05/12/2022 20:58, Ben Cotton wrote:
Replace the current `_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2` with `_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3` to improve mitigation of security issues arising from buffer overflows in packages in Fedora.
AFAIK, _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 enables runtime checks for every mem*() function call. This should result in significant performance degradation.
To proposal owner: add information about potential performance degradation, including benchmark results.
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