[OE-core] [PATCH 2/5] security_flags: pass ssp-buffer-size param to stack protector

[Khem Raj]

> On Aug 19, 2016, at 8:34 AM, Joshua Lock <joshua.g.lock at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> This tells the compiler to use a canary to protect any function which
> declares a character array of 4 or more bytes on its stack, rather
> than the default of 8 or more bytes.

Thats fine, however, it slows down the code, strong option was a compromise
otherwise we could just use fstack-protector-all

> 
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Lock <joshua.g.lock at intel.com>
> ---
> meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
> index 77fade6..691cea1 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
> +++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
> @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ lcl_maybe_fortify = "${@base_conditional('DEBUG_BUILD','1','','-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE
> # Error on use of format strings that represent possible security problems
> SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT ?= "-Wformat -Wformat-security -Werror=format-security"
> 
> -SECURITY_CFLAGS ?= "-fstack-protector-strong -pie -fpie ${lcl_maybe_fortify} ${SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT}"
> -SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS ?= "-fstack-protector-strong ${lcl_maybe_fortify} ${SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT}"
> +SECURITY_CFLAGS ?= "-fstack-protector-strong --param ssp-buffer-size=4 -pie -fpie ${lcl_maybe_fortify} ${SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT}"
> +SECURITY_NO_PIE_CFLAGS ?= "-fstack-protector-strong --param ssp-buffer-size=4 ${lcl_maybe_fortify} ${SECURITY_STRINGFORMAT}"
> 
> SECURITY_LDFLAGS ?= "-Wl,-z,relro,-z,now"
> SECURITY_X_LDFLAGS ?= "-Wl,-z,relro"
> --
> 2.7.4
> 
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