On 04/25/12 12:30, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 03/15/2012 05:34 PM, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
>> Hi Bryan
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 09:41:07PM -0600, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>>> Thanks for this patch [1]!
>>>
>>> I've been building my ports tree with -fstack-protector on FreeBSD 6, 7
>>> and 8. Once I upgraded to 8, I started running into the issue [2] this
>>> patch is fixing.
>>>
>>> I have a situation where non-ports applications are compiling
>>> statically, which ran into this. Specifically, the application is
>>> linking in security/openssl statically, which of course was compiled
>>> with -fstack-protector. Adding the /usr/lib/libc.ld fixed it without
>>> needing to hack at the failing non-port application.
>>>
>>> Would be nice if this, and PR 138228 were finally committed.
>>>
>>> Bryan Drewery
>>>
>>> [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-June/035538.html
>>> [2] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2006-05/msg00092.html
>> Wow, the perspective provided by those two posts makes me dizzy.  This
>> has been a very long standing project.  The base system is now compiled
>> with SSP, but doing so for ports still requires some manual hacking
>> unfortenately.  I've proposed a patch to compile ports with SSP a few
>> years ago, but some ports with special building strategy suffered the
>> problem described in [2].  Then I learned the possibilities of ld
>> scripts and provided the patch in [1] last year.
>>
>> I think we have all the bits necessary to be able to compile ports with
>> SSP painlessly.
>>
>> First the patch in [1] has to be committed in the base system.  I think
>> this can be done in CURRENT without any problem, I run it myself on my
>> own servers without problem.  Unfortunately it will probably never appear
>> in RELENG_9 because it may be deemed too dangerous to make such a change
>> in a stable branch.  It would be nice to hear what kib@ and kan@ think
>> about this.
>>
>> Next, the patch to bsd.port.mk in this PR [3] has to be applied to be
>> able to compile ports with SSP using a single knob.  (Other patches
>> along this one can be thrown away, they were required hacks back when
>> the libc ld script didn't exist.)  Then portmgr@ will naturally want to
>> make a full port build with this knob turned on to check, but last time
>> I was told they had very few resource and that this couldn't be
>> scheduled in the next couple of week, IIRC.
>>
>> I admit the situation is partly my fault, because I did the fun
>> technical work but I didn't keep up with the "lobbying" part :).
>> I asked once or twice, without success, and then went to other subjects.
>>
>> I would be really glad if we could proceed with this.  FreeBSD-9.0 has
>> just been release, this is probably a good time to step forward.
>>
>> [3] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/138228
>>
>> Cheers,
> Something to keep an eye on is that some ports may run `file
> /usr/lib/libc.so` and find that it is an ASCII text file.
>
> As I've mentioned, I've been running with SSP in my ports for at least a
> year now, and with this ld script for several months.
>
> The only issue I've ran into is the security/openssl port is looking at
> /usr/lib/libc.so to see if it is ELF or not, and due to this is falling
> back on a.out binary format and then generating incorrect ASM. I think
> this is going to be a pretty rare and specific case though.
>
> Regards,
> Bryan Drewery
>
Any reason not to use -fstack-protector-all as opposed to -fstack-protector?
I've been using this on all ports for quite a while, I don't usually run
into problems that make me need to revert to stock cflags. I don't use
ports OpenSSL so that's maybe why I've escaped.

Matt

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