On Tue, 26 May 2020 23:41:28 +0200 zo...@gentoo.org wrote: > tisdag 26 maj 2020 kl. 19:54:51 CEST skrev Alexis Ballier: > > 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. > Is not only PaX/Grsec that don't allow textrel. SELinux do it to and > that is manline kernel.
k so that means there's no dropping the pic useflag then i guess
