Re: F45 Change Proposal: Enable Shadow Stack by Default on x86_64 (system-wide)

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Wiki - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ShadowStack
> # The `dlopen`ed library is compiled with Shadow Stack support enabled.
> # The application opts out of Shadow Stack support using glibc's
> System-Wide Tunables feature. For example, a package named `app`
> providing `/usr/bin/app` would install `/etc/tunables.conf.d/app.conf`

Please, please, please, make that /usr/lib/tunables.conf.d/app.conf
by default. As described below, this is clearly something that is
part of the rpm and not "local configuration".

An override in /etc is fine of course.

> This disables Shadow Stack for that specific application while all
> other processes retain protection. The drop-in file is owned by the
> affected package's RPM, so it is added and removed with the package.
> Once the dependency is fixed, the package update removes the drop-in
> file and the application gains Shadow Stack protection.

Zbyszek
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