[OE-core] [PATCH] security_flags: disable static PIE in glibc

Ross Burton ross.burton at intel.com
Mon May 14 12:02:11 UTC 2018


Static PIE doesn't work entirely right in GCC 7, for example ldconfig on ARM
with the flags enabled will something segfault during initialisation.

To mitigate this until we have GCC 8 integrated, don't enable static PIE.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
---
 meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
index e6eb8114a24..6245e89ada4 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/security_flags.inc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # in the DISTRO="poky-lsb" configuration.
 
 GCCPIE ?= "--enable-default-pie"
-GLIBCPIE ?= "--enable-static-pie"
+# If static PIE is known to work well, GLIBCPIE="--enable-static-pie" can be set
 
 # _FORTIFY_SOURCE requires -O1 or higher, so disable in debug builds as they use
 # -O0 which then results in a compiler warning.
-- 
2.11.0




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