depends on GCC_PLUGINS
select MODVERSIONS if MODULES
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- If you say Y here, the layouts of structures explicitly
- marked by __randomize_layout will be randomized at
- compile-time. This can introduce the requirement of an
- additional information exposure vulnerability for exploits
- targeting these structure types.
+ If you say Y here, the layouts of structures that are entirely
+ function pointers (and have not been manually annotated with
+ __no_randomize_layout), or structures that have been explicitly
+ marked with __randomize_layout, will be randomized at compile-time.
+ This can introduce the requirement of an additional information
+ exposure vulnerability for exploits targeting these structure
+ types.
Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact,
slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic
gcc_assert(TREE_CODE(node) == RECORD_TYPE || TREE_CODE(node) == UNION_TYPE);
- /* XXX: Do not apply randomization to all-ftpr structs yet. */
- return 0;
-
for (field = TYPE_FIELDS(node); field; field = TREE_CHAIN(field)) {
const_tree fieldtype = get_field_type(field);
enum tree_code code = TREE_CODE(fieldtype);