Bug 1548740

Summary: policycoreutils: Does not use Fedora build flags
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: policycoreutilsAssignee: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba>
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Description Florian Weimer 2018-02-24 16:21:06 UTC
policycoreutils-2.7-13.fc28 does not use the Fedora build flags.

The flags are partially overridden in the RPM spec file, and LDFLAGS are not injected at all:

make -C policycoreutils-%{version} LSPP_PRIV=y SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fPIE" LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now" SEMODULE_PATH="/usr/sbin" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all

And some binaries (/usr/bin/sepolgen-ifgen-attr-helper, /usr/bin/semodule_expand, /usr/bin/semodule_unpackage, and a few more) are not linked with -z now.

See https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/redhat-rpm-config/blob/master/f/buildflags.md for information on RPM macros and environment variables provided by the build environment.

Comment 1 Petr Lautrbach 2018-02-26 09:23:47 UTC
It seems to be really easy to fix it:

--- a/policycoreutils.spec
+++ b/policycoreutils.spec
@@ -94,13 +94,14 @@ tar -xvf %{SOURCE14} -C selinux-python-%{version}/sepolicy/
 
 
 %build
-make -C policycoreutils-%{version} LSPP_PRIV=y SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fPIE" LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now" SEMODULE_PATH="/usr/sbin" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all
-make -C selinux-python-%{version} SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LSPP_PRIV=y LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fPIE" LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all
-make -C selinux-gui-%{version} SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LSPP_PRIV=y LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fPIE" LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all
-make -C selinux-sandbox-%{version} SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LSPP_PRIV=y LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fPIE" LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all
-make -C selinux-dbus-%{version} SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LSPP_PRIV=y LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fPIE" LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all
-make -C semodule-utils-%{version} SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LSPP_PRIV=y LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fPIE" LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all
-make -C restorecond-%{version} SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LSPP_PRIV=y LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fPIE" LDFLAGS="-pie -Wl,-z,relro" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all
+%set_build_flags
+make -C policycoreutils-%{version} LSPP_PRIV=y SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" SEMODULE_PATH="/usr/sbin" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all
+make -C selinux-python-%{version} SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LSPP_PRIV=y LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all
+make -C selinux-gui-%{version} SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LSPP_PRIV=y LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all
+make -C selinux-sandbox-%{version} SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LSPP_PRIV=y LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all
+make -C selinux-dbus-%{version} SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LSPP_PRIV=y LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all
+make -C semodule-utils-%{version} SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LSPP_PRIV=y LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all
+make -C restorecond-%{version} SBINDIR="%{_sbindir}" LSPP_PRIV=y LIBDIR="%{_libdir}" LIBSEPOLA="%{_libdir}/libsepol.a" all
 
 %install
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_bindir}


I'll push an update asap

Comment 3 Florian Weimer 2018-02-26 10:46:54 UTC
Thanks, fix confirmed for policycoreutils-2.7-14.fc28.