Re: [V4] libselinux: drop dso.h

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Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 11:41 AM <bill.c.roberts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Version 4:
>>   - Fix linker option warnings.
>>   - Move map file to begining of options.
>>
>> Version 3:
>>   - Add more symbols that should be dropped from the dso:
>>     - map_class;
>>     - map_decision;
>>     - map_perm;
>>
>> Version 2:
>>   - adds a version to the linker script LIBSELINUX_1.0
>>   - Adds a patch to drop some additional symbols from the dso:
>>     - dir_xattr_list
>>     - myprintf_compat
>>     - unmap_class
>>     - unmap_perm
>>
>> This four part patch series drops the dso.h and hidden_*
>> macros.
>>
>> The old dso.h functionality provided libselinux with both control over
>> external exported symbols as well as ensuring internal callers call into
>> libselinux and not a symbol with the same name loaded by the linker
>> earlier in the library list.
>>
>> The functionality is replaced by a linker script that requires public
>> API to explicitly be opt-in. The old method required that internal API
>> be explicitly annotated, and everything else is public. This should help
>> make it easier to control libselinux DSO hygene going forward.
>>
>> The second functionality is replaced by compiler option
>> -fno-semantic-interposition
>>
>> Note that clang has this enabled by default, and thus doesn't need it.
>>
>> See:
>>   - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35745543/new-option-in-gcc-5-3-fno-semantic-interposition
>>
>> [PATCH v4 1/4] dso: drop hidden_proto and hidden_def
>> [PATCH v4 2/4] Makefile: add -fno-semantic-interposition
>> [PATCH v4 3/4] Makefile: add linker script to minimize exports
>> [PATCH v4 4/4] libselinux: drop symbols from map
>
> This looks fine to me but I'd like at least one of the distro
> maintainers to ack it (especially the last one).

Acked-by: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@xxxxxxxxxx>




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