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| author | V3n3RiX <venerix@koprulu.sector> | 2023-01-02 02:23:07 +0000 |
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| committer | V3n3RiX <venerix@koprulu.sector> | 2023-01-02 02:23:07 +0000 |
| commit | 9d7dcb261c1433eafda094d4f0524d4a2a781b8d (patch) | |
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| parent | 5b7c114c09d07eecd00e6f7fb829563aae3597b9 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/metadata/news/2023-01-01-hardening-fortify-assertions/2023-01-01-hardening-fortify-assertions.en.txt b/metadata/news/2023-01-01-hardening-fortify-assertions/2023-01-01-hardening-fortify-assertions.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f0aab216a04f --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2023-01-01-hardening-fortify-assertions/2023-01-01-hardening-fortify-assertions.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +Title: Hardened profiles improvements +Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2023-01-01 +Revision: 2 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: sys-devel/gcc[hardened] +Display-If-Profile: features/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/ppc64le/17.0/musl/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/ppc/17.0/musl/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/17.0/musl/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/17.0/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/musl/armv7a/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/musl/armv6j/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/armv7a/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/armv6j/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/ppc64/17.0/musl/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm64/17.0/hardened +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm64/17.0/musl/hardened + +Gentoo's hardened profiles are adopting two new modern toolchain hardening +techniques: +1. Level 3 fortification (-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3) [0] +2. libstdc++ assertions (-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS) [1] + +These will both be enabled by default with USE=hardened on sys-devel/gcc +for >=sys-devel/gcc-12.2.1_p20221231. + +To view the existing list of hardening changes applied by the profiles, +see the wiki [2]. + +Stable users may wish to add sys-devel/gcc-12.2.1_p20221231 into +/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords if they wish to take advantage +of these improvements early, before GCC 12 is marked stable. + +## Migration + +To fully take advantage of these new settings, GCC must first +be upgraded, and then all packages must be re-emerged: +1. # emerge --sync +2. # emerge --verbose --oneshot ">=sys-devel/gcc-12.2.1_p20221231" +3. # gcc-config latest +4. # emerge --verbose --emptytree @world + +## Troubleshooting + +In the event that some packages fail at runtime, please file a bug +with the full details. To temporarily workaround the problem, +it should be possible to recompile broken packages with the +following *FLAGS: +CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" +CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -U_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS" + +[0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/876893 +[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/876895 +[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/Toolchain#Changes |