Bug 660714

Summary:	Please unmask pcre-jit for dev-vcs/git on hardened profile
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (RETIRED) <klondike>
Component:	Hardened	Assignee:	The Gentoo Linux Hardened Team <hardened>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-07-08 14:40:05 UTC

The JIT restrictions made sense when we still had grsec based kernels around as these put in place additional restrictions on mprotect and RWX mappings. Since we no longer have access to these please consider dropping the masking of pcre-jit for dev-vcs/git on features/hardened/package.use.mask

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2021-03-16 15:45:37 UTC

pcre-jit is going away in 2.31+