From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@chromium.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH conntrack-tools] Link nfct and helper modules with `-z lazy`
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 16:28:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160922142800.GA3058@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1473627259-33065-1-git-send-email-cernekee@chromium.org>
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 01:54:19PM -0700, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> Some distributions, such as Gentoo and Chrome OS, try to link all
> programs with `-z now` as a security hardening measure. This breaks
> nfct, because nfct cannot satisfy all of the helper modules' symbols.
> Therefore nfct implicitly depends on lazy binding.
>
> Have autoconf probe the linker to see if `-z lazy` works, and if so,
> use it to link nfct and the helpers.
>
> conntrackd itself is unaffected, and should still work with `-z now`.
Applied, thanks for your patience.
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2016-09-11 20:54 [PATCH conntrack-tools] Link nfct and helper modules with `-z lazy` Kevin Cernekee
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