[tor-bugs] #12192 [Tor]: TOR does not function on hardened linux kernel with PaX

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#12192: TOR does not function on hardened linux kernel with PaX
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     Reporter:             |      Owner:
  cypherpunks              |     Status:  needs_information
         Type:  defect     |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.???
     Priority:  normal     |    Version:  Tor: 0.2.4.22
    Component:  Tor        |   Keywords:  grsec,pax,hardened,linux,mprotect
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Comment (by strcat):

 I'm the maintainer of linux-grsec in Arch Linux. Here's the downstream bug
 report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40685

 This isn't a bug in tor itself, so the issue here can be closed. At the
 moment, Arch Linux has a backported binutils patch causing every single
 PIE binary (even hello world) built with ld.bfd to conflict with the PaX
 MPROTECT mitigations. Passing `-fuse-ld=gold` in LDFLAGS is enough to work
 around this issue.

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