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From: Mike Granby <mikeg@mikeg.net>
To: "musl@lists.openwall.com" <musl@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: [musl] _chk Variants
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 20:11:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MN2PR12MB308734AB7A84D25A20E5880EAB879@MN2PR12MB3087.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> (raw)

I have been trying to run a GCC cross-compiler within Alpine, and hitting an issue with musl not providing the _chk variants of various APIs. For example, glibc provides __printf_chk which takes an additional argument and optionally performs various security checks before proceeding. I know the official way forward is to rebuild the compiler with the option to disable these calls, but rebuilding the GCC toolchain is not for the faint of heart, and I have thus been loath to go down that path. Instead, I developed a patch for the Alpine's musl APK that implemented the _chk variants as mere wrappers for the underlying APIs, thus allowing GCC to operate, albeit without the extra security that a full implementation would provide. This met my immediate need, but I am interested as to the view of the community in either implementing the _chk variants for real, or in providing the wrappers to enable better binary compatibility.

             reply	other threads:[~2022-07-11 20:11 UTC|newest]

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2022-07-11 20:11 Mike Granby [this message]
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2022-07-11 20:31   ` alice

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