https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1591910



--- Comment #11 from Antonio Trande <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Dave Love from comment #10)
> (In reply to Antonio Trande from comment #9)
> > (In reply to Dave Love from comment #8)
> > > (In reply to Antonio Trande from comment #7)
> > > 
> > > > - libblas* libraries are not hardened:
> > > > 
> > > > $ checksec --file libblas.so.3
> > > > RELRO           STACK CANARY      NX            PIE             RPATH   
> > > >   
> > > > RUNPATH FORTIFY Fortified Fortifiable  FILE
> > > > Partial RELRO   No canary found   NX enabled    DSO             No 
> > > > RPATH  
> > > > No RUNPATH   No 0               0       libblas.so.3
> > > 
> > > Do you know how to change that?  Linking with %build_ldflags doesn't 
> > > affect
> > > that result.  I assume it doesn't make any real difference for the shims.
> > 
> > It depends by these commands:
> > 
> > + cc -shared -Wl,-soname=libblas.so.3 ...
> > 
> > Add %__global_ldflags as options.
> 
> __global_ldflags is defined as %build_ldflags. Have you actually made it
> work? I guess the only reason to worry about it at all is so it doesn't show
> up. Those libraries are as close as possible to an alias of libblis etc., so
> I doubt there's much scope for compromising them anyhow.

Setting ldflags in 'cc' commands does make libraries 'Full Relro'. I don't know
if it's a real improvement in these cases.

> 
> > > 
> > > > - These packages provide same blas* libraries:
> > > > 
> > > > $ repoquery --whatprovides libblas.so.*
> > > > Last metadata expiration check: 2:17:11 ago on sab 22 set 2018 12:57:31 
> > > > CEST.
> > > > blas-0:3.8.0-8.fc28.i686
> > > > blas-0:3.8.0-8.fc28.x86_64
> > > > blas-0:3.8.0-9.fc28.i686
> > > > blas-0:3.8.0-9.fc28.x86_64
> > > > 
> > > > Must be filtered, i guess.
> > > 
> > > Sorry, I don't know what that's getting at.  Could you explain? (It's
> > > arguable clear how the libblas shims should be handled, especially as 
> > > either
> > > openblas of blis might win in different circumstances.)
> > 
> > This package provides libblas.so.* libraries (inside a private directory):
> > 
> > blis:
> >     blis
> >     blis(x86-64)
> >     config(blis)
> >     libblas.so.3()(64bit)
> >     libblis.so.1()(64bit)
> > 
> > like 'blas': https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=14724212
> > 
> > libblas from 'blis' and libblas from 'blas' have same name.
> > Probably, you'll need to filter libblas from 'blis' and set rpath links from
> > libblis* to %_libdir/blisblas/libblas* .
> > 
> > Please, ask in devel mailing list if this is right approach.
> 
> No, the idea is that you should be able to swap BLAS implementations at run
> time via LD_LIBRARY_PATH/ld.so.conf; perhaps README.Fedora needs a better
> explanation.  (See also 
> https://loveshack.fedorapeople.org/blas-subversion.html for what I've run in
> anger with OpenBLAS.) Fedora does need a useful linear algebra policy, but
> that's been rejected in committee. Can you see a real problem in practice
> with this approach?

What i wish prevent is conflict among BLAS packages.
Do you think it's out discussion with BLIS?

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