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Date:      Wed, 5 Nov 2014 14:26:12 +0200
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>, FreeBSD Arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, Shawn Webb <lattera@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: PIE/PIC support on base
Message-ID:  <20141105122612.GC53947@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20141105114855.GH10388@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 12:48:55PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 11:26:14AM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 10:02:15AM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > > On amd64 WANTS_PIE will be useless as we can easily activate PIE on every places
> > > For i386 we would propably prefer cherry picking the what we want to see built
> > > with PIE. Don't know for other arches.
> > > 
> > > So here is what I do propose:
> > > if MK_PIE=no: no PIE at all
> > > if MK_PIE=yes:
> > > - on amd64/(platforms without performance penalty): build everything with PIE
> > >   from libs to prog
> > See below.
> > 
> > > - on i386/(platforms with performance penalty): build with PIE if WANTS_PIE
> > >   is defined.
> > > 
> > > So the difference with the previous approach are:
> > > - No way to opt out PIE for a single binary either totally disable or enable (I
> > >   have encountered no binary so far in the base system which fails with PIE
> > >   enabled - again only tested on amd64)
> > > - Activate PIE for both binaries and libraries (no reason not to include
> > >   libraries)
> > What does it mean 'PIE for library' ? There is simply no such thing.
> 
> Sorry I badly explained, I was meaning PIC for libs PIE for binaries.
> > 
> > Also, I strongly oppose compiling everything with PIC, even on amd64.
> > I described somewhere else that using PIC code changes symbol lookup
> > rules for binaries.  So despite not having performance impact, the
> > thing does impact runtime behaviour in subtle ways.  The most affected
> > programs are those which support dynamic modules.
Please do not ignore this ^^^^^^ issue.

> > 
> > Also, what is the state of static binaries + PIE ? Do our binutils
> > support this at all ? The csu is definitely not ready for 'everything
> > PIE'.
> 
> Only dynamic binaries will receive PIE support (and in case of using an
> INTERNALLIB will link to the libbla_pic.a) static ones will remain non PIE.

And what about libX.a libraries, required by those static binaries ?
It is wrong to compile the .o files for those static libraries in
pic mode.

More, take look at things which are done with -DPIC, e.g. in the
lib/libc/sys/stack_protector*.c.  There, it is critical for correctness.





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