Proposed F19 Feature: MEMSTOMP

[Florian Weimer]

On 01/24/2013 08:00 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> said:
>> Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik at redhat.com) said:
>>> The MEMSTOMP code utilizes GPLV2+ and LGPL3 code. The GPLV2+ code is limited
>>> to the backtrace code which is not thread safe and may need to be
>>> disabled/rewritten.
>>
>> I assume this could be done as a system-wide LD_PRELOAD if desired?
>
> I would guess that "the backtrace code which is not thread safe" would
> mean you couldn't safely do it system-wide.

GCC trunk contains a backtrace implementation which is supposedly 
thread-safe.  But it does not work yet with separate debuginfo yet, I think.


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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team