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

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On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 09:02:36AM +0100, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> On 06/12/2022 23:20, Michael Catanzaro via devel wrote:
> > Even if extra bounds checking makes code 10% slower, which seems very unlikely, the benefit of the extra hardening would still be worth it. _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is going to make it harder to hack Fedora users, converting code execution vulnerabilities into denial of service vulnerabilities.
> 
> No, it doesn't. 3% maximum is acceptable in this case.
> 
> Me and all my friends use mitigations=off. A huge performance penalty for
> the sake of potential vulnerabilities that still need to be able to exploit.

Don't assume that your insecure usage is typical of Fedora's userbase
as a whole. I doubt most people even know that mitigations=off is a
thing, nor even notice the performance penalty of the mitigations
enough to want to turn it off.

With regards,
Daniel
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