Re: F38 proposal: Add _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to distribution build flags (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 10:26 AM Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmaster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 3:16 PM Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > My full comment in that blog post is:
> >
> > "We need a proper study of performance and code size to understand the
> > magnitude of the impact created by _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 additional
> > runtime code generation. However the performance and code size
> > overhead may well be worth it due to the magnitude of improvement in
> > security coverage."
>
> The key word is *MAY*.  That is not considered
> to be a conclusion supported by the evidence
> presented (at least in any scientific paper I
> have reviewed).

I have added a performance note[1] in the proposal.

Thanks,
Sid

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Add_FORTIFY_SOURCE%3D3_to_distribution_build_flags#Performance_note
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