hardening breaks X.org

Sérgio Basto sergio at serjux.com
Tue Mar 3 12:04:50 UTC 2015


On Dom, 2015-03-01 at 20:16 -0500, David Airlie wrote:
> So the rebuild to use hardened builds by default in rawhide, broke X.org.
> 
> Thanks guys, my system is more secure, but I can't run any apps.

Why we have this demand of security paranoia ? 

> Anyways enough snark from me, the problem seems to be that hardening
> makes bind now override RTLD_LAZY options, and the X server relies
> on the RTLD_LAZY on its drivers being lazy.
> 
> So should I
> 
> a) turn off hardened builds for all Xorg server/driver packages?
> 
> b) or is there a way to get partial relro back?

In my point of view , first put things working , which is "turn off
hardened" , after try fix the build to use hardened, if it is possible. 
It can be fixed  ? 

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Sérgio M. B.



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