Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:40:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47030 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201507202040.t6KKe06b046008@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Mon Jul 20 20:40:00 2015 New Revision: 47030 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47030 Log: Add Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>'s libc security extensions GSoC report. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Mon Jul 20 20:22:51 2015 (r47029) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Mon Jul 20 20:40:00 2015 (r47030) @@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ </category> <category> + <name>gsoc</name> + + <description>Google Summer of Code</description> + </category> + + <category> <name>misc</name> <description>Miscellaneous</description> @@ -2913,7 +2919,7 @@ Daroussin, Bryan Drewery, Dimitry Andric, Andrew Turner, Warner Losh, Ian Lapore, and Brooks Davis.</p> - <p>We are currently targetting packages for head on + <p>We are currently targeting packages for head on <tt>mips</tt>, <tt>mips64</tt> and <tt>armv6</tt>. Each set takes one to two weeks to build on QEMU. They will be provided on a best effort basis for now on the default @@ -2960,4 +2966,76 @@ </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='gsoc'> + <title>GSoC 2015: <tt>libc</tt> Security Extensions</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Pedro</given> + <common>Giffuni</common> + </name> + <email>pfg@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Oliver</given> + <common>Pinter</common> + </name> + <email>op@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2015/FreeBSDLibcSecurityExtensions">Project + Wiki Page</url> + <url href="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3043">Code Review + Differential</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>As part of this year's Google Summer of Code, we have been + adding support for the <tt>_FORTIFY_SOURCE</tt> extension to + <tt>libc</tt>. This extension uses the GCC + <tt>builtin_object_size</tt> to prevent buffer overflows on + existing code. The compiler and the C library can effectively + detect a set of common programming mistakes.</p> + + <p>The current status is that a mixed version of the NetBSD and + Android implementations has been ported and is currently + undergoing heavy testing. On &os;, this code has already + found two small bugs. On the other hand, the &os; codebase + is extremely useful to test the framework.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor> + Google Summer of Code Program + </sponsor> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Code review and more buildworld testing with GCC.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Integration tests, especially on non-x86 platforms.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Documentation: the framework is relatively popular on GNU + libc but we still have to work on better documentation.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Testing and possibly integrating with ports.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>We will have to re-schedule the GSoC project, as we were + expecting to spend less time on this.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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