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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:10:29 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Carlier <david.carlier@hardenedbsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PIE/PIC support on base
Message-ID:  <20141015061029.GO48641@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAMe1fxaYn%2BJaKzGXx%2Bywv8F0mKDo72g=W23KUWOKZzpm8wX4Tg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:02:27PM +0100, David Carlier wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> HardenedBSD plans to add PIE support on base in various place.
> 
> These are B. Drewery suggestions :
> 
> The _pic ones are not needed. The main lib file just needs
> INSTALL_PIC_ARCHIVE=yes.
> 
> Modifying CFLAGS in every Makefile is not right, just add a USE_PIE or
> something to pull in common logic from share/mk.
> 
> Also I know that, at least for a start, it wished to be applied in some few
> places, like tcpdump/traceroute, sendmail ... shells ... I thought about
> also casper/capsicum ... ntp ... jail
> 
What would probably be interesting is to list binary by binary on which one you
do want to add the USE_PIE, and with rational explaining why.

On some OS you often can see ssh(1) not being PIE while sshd(8) have PIE. I
think cherry-picking what should be PIE is the right

regards,
Bapt

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