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.

--
Sincerely,
  Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycoding.org)
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