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Re: AT_ENTROPY1 and AT_ENTROPY2 values for include/linux/auxvec.h
- From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan at infradead dot org>
- To: Alexander Gabert <pappy at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, hardened at gentoo dot org
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:06:43 -0700
- Subject: Re: AT_ENTROPY1 and AT_ENTROPY2 values for include/linux/auxvec.h
- References: <4675C678.3080807@gentoo.org>
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 01:40 +0200, Alexander Gabert wrote:
> Hello glibc and kernel maintainers,
>
> could you please add two AT_ entries to include/linux/auxvec.h in the
> upstream kernel and the respective elf/elf.h definitions in glibc.
while I'm not per se against adding such aux vectors, I think it's a bad
mistake to make them a config option (and 2 options at that!!)
Stack protector is very widely deployed today
(Fedora,RHEL,SLES,OpenSUSE,Gentoo etc), so I can sure see the point of
helping it a bit... but I'd like to see a little more data on how the
current approach isn't sufficient.