On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 08:19:22AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 03:12:19AM +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 10:53 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > It has a similar impact that turning back on frame pointers would. > > > > > > Cf. > > > https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/09/17/gccs-new-fortification-level#the_gains_of_improved_security_coverage_outweigh_the_cost > > > > > > > That article explicitly states: > > "We need a proper study of performance and code size to understand > > the magnitude of the impact" > > > > I look forward to seeing the results of that proper study before > > this is even considered for approval (since, after all, one of the > > strong push-backs for -fno-omit-frame-pointer was performance). > > Note that is not a fully equivalent scenario. The no-omit-frame-pointer > proposal was only offering a functional debugging benefit to a fairly > small number of users who are also developers, while adding a likely > performance hit to all users. There needs to be a high bar to justify > the performance hit when the benefit offered is narrow.
I'm not sure about this - more reliable stack traces affect anyone who hits a bug, which is all users. (Plus we should strive to turn more users into developers as a general point about computing.) > This proposal is adding a functional security benefit to all users, > alongside the possible performance hit. This is more easily justifiable, > especially given Fedora's track record of being willing to security > improvements even when they have a performance hit. I agree here. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
