Re: [PATCH] gcc-plugins: Add structleak for more stack initialization

[PaX Team]

On 17 Jan 2017 at 17:48, Mark Rutland wrote:

> That being the case, (and given the relevant bug has now been fixed),
> it's not clear to me what the value of this is today. i.e. given the
> general case, is this preventing many leaks?

no idea, i stopped looking at the instrumentation log long ago, but everyone
can enable the debug output (has a very specific comment on it ;) and look at
the results. i keep this plugin around because it costs nothing to maintain
it and the alternative (better) solution doesn't exist yet.

> > i never went into that direction because i think the security goal can
> > be achieved without the performance impact of forced initialization.
> 
> Was there a particular technique you had in mind?

sure, i mentioned it in my SSTIC'12 keynote (page 36):
https://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/PaXTeam-SSTIC12-keynote-20-years-of-PaX.pdf