tisdag 26 maj 2020 kl. 19:54:51 CEST skrev Alexis Ballier:
> On Tue, 26 May 2020 10:45:39 -0400
>
> Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > Note that having the 'pic' useflag should be considered something
> > > to be fixed: rewrite the asm in a PIC way. But these days nobody
> > > has the will to do it since this is mostly an issue on x86+pax,
> > > both being slowly decreasing.
> >
> > Given that PaX has been stripped out of official Gentoo kernels due to
> > the grsecurity licensing issue, I wonder if there is any other good
> > reason to keep the "pic" USE flag today. Surely this affects a very
> > small population of users.
>
> Yeah that was my thought when I saw pax/grsec beginning to be more
> hostile to open source. That's not my call but the hardened team's,
> however I'm all for removing these workarounds entirely if there's no
> point in having them anymore.
Is not only PaX/Grsec that don't allow textrel. SELinux do it to and that is
manline kernel.
