From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Cc: fweimer@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] manual: Document __wur usage under _FORTIFY_SOURCE
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:25:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230324152543.30573-1-siddhesh@sourceware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230324144005.26782-1-siddhesh@sourceware.org>
The __warn_unused_result__ attribute is only enabled when fortification
is enabled. Mention that in the document. The rationale for this is
essentially to mitigate against CWE-252:
[1] https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/252.html
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
---
manual/maint.texi | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/manual/maint.texi b/manual/maint.texi
index 76d4a1a147..a8441e20b6 100644
--- a/manual/maint.texi
+++ b/manual/maint.texi
@@ -207,6 +207,9 @@ hardened variant that does additional safety checks at runtime. Some
hardened variants need the size of the buffer to perform access
validation and this is provided by the @code{__builtin_object_size} or
the @code{__builtin_dynamic_object_size} builtin functions.
+@code{_FORTIFY_SOURCE} also enables additional compile time diagnostics,
+such as unchecked return values from some functions, to encourage
+developers to add error checking for those functions.
At runtime, if any of those safety checks fail, the program will
terminate with a @code{SIGABRT} signal. @code{_FORTIFY_SOURCE} may be
--
2.39.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-24 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-24 14:40 [PATCH] " Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-03-24 15:15 ` Florian Weimer
2023-03-24 15:23 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-03-24 15:25 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar [this message]
2023-04-03 13:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Florian Weimer
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