_hardened_build not affecting libtool-compiled libraries

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Jun 24 18:46:09 UTC 2013


Here's the problem (found by Björn Esser):

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977446#c10

and then later on:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977446#c14

So it seems as if _hardened_build for some reason doesn't work for
libtool-compiled libraries.  It does look as if the correct CFLAGS and
LDFLAGS are getting to the build.  See for example:

  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=429062
  http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/nbdkit/1.0.0/4.fc20/data/logs/x86_64/build.log

but the plugins from that build are not hardened fully:

  $ hardening-check ./usr/lib64/nbdkit/plugins/nbdkit-example1-plugin.so
  ./usr/lib64/nbdkit/plugins/nbdkit-example1-plugin.so:
   Position Independent Executable: no, regular shared library (ignored)
   Stack protected: no, not found!
   Fortify Source functions: no, only unprotected functions found!
   Read-only relocations: yes
   Immediate binding: yes

Also we had to add an LDFLAGS hack into the %build section to even get
this far.

Any ideas?  Is this a bug or how it should be?

Rich.

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