FORTIFY_SOURCE feature of libssp, thus checking the size of arguments to
various string and memory copy and set functions (as well as a few system
calls and other miscellany) where known at function entry. RedHat has
evidently built all "core system packages" with this option for some time.
This option should be used at the top of Makefiles (or Makefile.inc where
this is used for subdirectories) but after any setting of LIB.
This is only useful for userland code, and cannot be used in libc or in
any code which includes the libc internals, because it overrides certain
libc functions with macros. Some effort has been made to make USE_FORT=yes
work correctly for a full-system build by having the bsd.sys.mk logic
disable the feature where it should not be used (libc, libssp iteself,
the kernel) but no attempt has been made to build the entire system with
USE_FORT and doing so will doubtless expose numerous bugs and misfeatures.
Adjust the system build so that all programs and libraries that are setuid,
directly handle network data (including serial comm data), perform
authentication, or appear likely to have (or have a history of having)
data-driven bugs (e.g. file(1)) are built with USE_FORT=yes by default,
with the exception of libc, which cannot use USE_FORT and thus uses
only USE_SSP by default. Tested on i386 with no ill results; USE_FORT=no
per-directory or in a system build will disable if desired.
Change isspace(*char_ptr) to isspace(*char_ptr & 0xff) so that the correct
piece of memory is looked at for the bit mask.
gcc optimises out the '& 0xff' (on i386 at least).
Fixes problems found by gcc when the splurious (int) cast is removed
from the #defines in ctype.h
in PR/12045 by John Valdes, who also provided the problem's
solution and a patch.
XXX This problem could have been caught about a year ago if we
XXX just ran the regression tests on every build!
from OpenBSD to make use of different hash functions possible.
Also factored out some common code pieces, ANSIfied and
corrected SHA1 hash to make the result match up with the
regression examples in above RFC.
njoly