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.
userland version; provide another ccd global variable (ccd_softc_elemsize)
containing the kernel's size, and use that it ccdconfig(8) to convert the
kernel's ccd_softc into userland versions.
Fixes 'ccdconfig -g'.
* Use DISKUNIT() instead of home-grown cruft to determine the `N' of "ccdN".
Fixes 'ccdconfig -g ccd1'.
* Use (void *) instead of (char *) in the calls to kvm_read().
XXX: ccd could be converted from nlist to sysctl. "Someone else's yak shave".
dev/vndvar.h or dev/ccdvar.h so that struct pool is always available
regardless of multiple inclusion. Actually, ccdconfig.c compiles without
this change but ...
and the top, and then set the effective gid back to kmem around the call to
kvm_openfiles(). this reduces the time group kmem is available.
- for those above that also allow this, setgid(getgid()) after the call to
kvm_openfiles() to fully revoke priviledges.
- some KNF
- use err(3) over fprintf(3) in some places
martin