Re: HEADS-UP: PIE enabled by default on stable/13

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From: Marcin Wojtas <mw_at_semihalf.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 07:04:04 UTC

+ freebsd-stable@, apologies for the noise.

niedz., 23 sty 2022 o 11:36 Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com> napisał(a):
>
> Hi,
>
> As of 396e9f259d962 the base system binaries are now built as position-independent executable (PIE) by default, for 64-bit architectures. Thanks to that enabling ASLR can be done simply
> by sysctls knobs when booting the kernel.
>
> If you track stable/13 and normally build WITHOUT_CLEAN you'll need to do one initial clean build -- either run `make cleanworld` or set WITH_CLEAN=yes.
>
> The change is a pure MFC of the changes integrated to -CURRENT early 2021 and no issues are expected, but in case any problems are observed, please issue a PR and/or let me know in this thread.
>
> Best regards,
> Marcin