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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:41:59 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne@heuristicsystems.com.au>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ASLR/PIE status in FreeBSD HEAD
Message-ID:  <20200420144159.GT2655@kib.kiev.ua>
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:00:06AM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 04:19, Dewayne Geraghty
> <dewayne@heuristicsystems.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > I'm on a similar ride.  We run applications in both i386 and amd64 jails
> > with FreeBSD's ASLR enabled (sendmail, squid, apache, ...) and all good.
> 
> Great!
> 
> > On the build server, the i386 jail with aslr enabled wasn't able to
> > build gcc9; so this was disabled kern.elf32.*.
> 
> i386 has little spare address space and compiling applications as PIE
> has a significant performance impact there, so enabling it only on
> 64-bit seems quite reasonable.
With 4/4 i386 gained +1G for UVA, which makes i386 binaries behaviour
on i386 kernel almost identical to amd64 kernel.

> 
> > ntp was the only real application that didn't play nicely with aslr.
> > Fortunately, this was very helpful:
> >
> > /usr/bin/proccontrol -m aslr -s disable /usr/local/sbin/ntpd...
It is really -m stackgap that hurted ntpd, but I remember that the
code which was causing problems, was removed since then.

> 
> Yes, and you can now (if using stable/12 or -CURRENT) use elfctl to
> tag the binary with a note to request randomization be disabled for
> the process, although we really should address the underlying issue.



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