This works by defining a set of weak symbols in dynamic linker whose
value would be provided by it. This has the same effect as preloading
library that magically knows right addresses of functions shared between
dynamic linker and LibC.
We were previously passing the same information by rewriting values
based on hardcoded library name, so the new approach seems a little
nicer to me.
Employ the same hardening that glibc and the Linux kernel use for
generating stack guards: zero the first byte of the guard such that
if C-style string functions read out of bounds on the stack, we do
not overwrite or potentially leak the stack guard.
We used size_t, which is a type that is guarenteed to be large
enough to hold an array index, but uintptr_t is designed to be used
to hold pointer values, which is the case of stack guards.
The shared parts are now firmly compiled into LibC instead of being
defined as a static library and then being copied over manually.
The non-shared ("local") parts are kept as a static library that is
linked into each binary on demand.
This finally allows us to support linking with the -fstack-protector
flag, which now replaces the `ssp` target being linked into each binary
accidentally via CMake.
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
