- It is opt-out for now so as to give it maximum testing, but it may be
turned opt-in for stable branches depending on the consensus. You
can turn it off with WITHOUT_SSP.
- WITHOUT_SSP was previously used to disable the build of GNU libssp.
It is harmless to steal the knob as SSP symbols have been provided
by libc for a long time, GNU libssp should not have been much used.
- SSP is disabled in a few corners such as system bootstrap programs
(sys/boot), process bootstrap code (rtld, csu) and SSP symbols themselves.
- It should be safe to use -fstack-protector-all to build world, however
libc will be automatically downgraded to -fstack-protector because it
breaks rtld otherwise.
- This option is unavailable on ia64.
Enable GCC stack protection (aka Propolice) for kernel:
- It is opt-out for now so as to give it maximum testing.
- Do not compile your kernel with -fstack-protector-all, it won't work.
Submitted by: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Also:
Switch FreeBSD to use libgcc_s.so.1.
Use dl_iterate_phdr to locate shared objects' exception frame
info instead of depending on older register_frame_info machinery.
This allows us to avoid depending on libgcc_s.so.1 in binaries
that do not use exception handling directly. As an additional
benefit it breaks circular libc <=> libgcc_s.so.1 dependency too.
Build newly added libgomp.so.1 library, the runtime support
bits for OpenMP.
Build LGPLed libssp library. Our libc provides our own
BSD-licensed SSP callbacks implementation, so this library
is only built to benefit applications that have hadcoded
knowledge of libssp.so and libssp_nonshared.a. When linked
in from command line, these libraries override libc
implementation.
