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From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>, libc-stable@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Backporting CVE-2016-10739
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190204213212.GD15137@aurel32.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8djl16h.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>

On 2019-02-04 21:59, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Carlos O'Donell:
> 
> >> Patch below.  What do you think?
> >
> > This looks good to me, you make direct use of "__attribute__
> > ((visibility ("hidden")))" in an exceptional case, and that's fine.
> 
> > If this becomes less rare for some reason we might want a
> > libc-symbols.h macro to define something that expresses the intent of
> > the hidden visibility e.g. attr_dup_sym_hidden.
> 
> I'm not a firm believer in those macros.  The fact that attribute_hidden
> expanded to nothing at all was quite a surprise to me.
> 
> I've pushed the last version.
> 
> Aurelien, I will not be able to do any more backports before Wednesday,
> so please feel free to take over.

Thanks, I'll work on that for the 2.24 branch.

Aurelien

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-04 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-01  0:00 Aurelien Jarno
2019-01-01  0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2019-01-01  0:00   ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-01-01  0:00   ` Florian Weimer
2019-01-01  0:00     ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-01-01  0:00       ` Florian Weimer
2019-01-01  0:00         ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-01-01  0:00           ` Florian Weimer
2019-01-01  0:00             ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-01-01  0:00               ` Florian Weimer
2019-01-01  0:00                 ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-01-01  0:00                   ` Florian Weimer
2019-01-01  0:00                     ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-01-01  0:00                     ` Aurelien Jarno [this message]
2019-01-01  0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2019-01-01  0:00   ` Aurelien Jarno
2019-01-01  0:00     ` Florian Weimer
2019-01-01  0:00       ` Aurelien Jarno

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