On Tue, 26 May 2020 10:45:39 -0400 Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Note that having the 'pic' useflag should be considered something > > to be fixed: rewrite the asm in a PIC way. But these days nobody > > has the will to do it since this is mostly an issue on x86+pax, > > both being slowly decreasing. > > Given that PaX has been stripped out of official Gentoo kernels due to > the grsecurity licensing issue, I wonder if there is any other good > reason to keep the "pic" USE flag today. Surely this affects a very > small population of users. > Yeah that was my thought when I saw pax/grsec beginning to be more hostile to open source. That's not my call but the hardened team's, however I'm all for removing these workarounds entirely if there's no point in having them anymore.
