Rather than doing separate linker/compiler checks, just build a
non-empty program with each so that the compiler will actually try to
use the hardening features. Reduce redundancy in the macro calls by just
setting the flag that was just tested.
Also, disable hardening for mingw, since its trying to use a
libssp-0.dll file that I can't find right now. The detected hardening
flags break mingw builds currently.
Where available, enable stack smashing protection, fortify source,
no-strict-overflow, and read only relocations.
Many Linux distributions automatically enable most of these options.
They are no brainers. The difference introduced here is in asking for a
few more aggressive options. An option to disable the more aggressive
options is provided (--disable-hardening). When set, configure will fall
back to the default CFLAGS on the system - in many cases that will still
be hardened. There is no point in going further than that.
Options enabled are:
-fstack-protector-strong is a relatively new GCC-4.9 feature that is
supposed to give a better balance between performance and protection.
-all is considered too aggressive, but was used in Chromium and other
security critical systems until -strong became available. Follow their
lead and use -strong when possible. clang 6.0 supports -all but not
-strong.
_FORTIFY_SOURCE replaces certain unsafe C str* and mem* functions with
more robust equivalents when the compiler can determine the length of
the buffers involved.
-fno-strict-overflow instructs GCC to not make optimizations based on
the assumption that signed arithmetic will wrap around on overflow (e.g.
(short)0x7FFF + 1 == 0). This prevents the optimizer from doing some
unexpected things. Further improvements should trap signed overflows and
reduce the use of signed to refer to naturally unsigned quantities.
I did not set -fPIE (position independent executables). The critical
function of Open/LibreSSL is as a library, not an executable.
Tested on Ubuntu Linux 14.04.1 LTS, OS X 10.10.1 with "make check".
Signed-off-by: Jim Barlow <jim@purplerock.ca>
