[jmclnx]

>Did the OpenSSH folks know (or care) that ifunc was a thing? It's certainly not a thing on OpenBSD.

I do not know why you were down-voted, maybe you deserved no up-votes, but down-votes to me were a bit extreme :) But that quote tends to indicate to me the author put a little blame on OpenSSH Developers. Maybe the author did not intend it to be read in the way I read it.

OpenSSH developers should not need to know what or why systemd distros apply patches to OpenSSH, the distro I use, Slackware, did not have this vulnerability because the Slackware team, AFAIK, only adds patches if the package does not compile. If other distros did that this issue would not have occurred.

To me the issue was patching OpenSSH for some systemd thing. Maybe IFUNC was part of the issue, but the real issue was patching OpenSSH.

But I know one thing, I never heard of IFUNC and after reading about it, I will avoid that as much as I can. So at least I was educated :)

[robertdfrench]

I do not think the OpenSSH folks are at fault! I was trying to drive the point that OpenSSH was forced to work in an environment that is very, very different from where it is primarily developed. I don't think the OpenSSH folks should have been expected to anticipate something as genuinely unusual as ifunc, since there is no analog on OpenBSD.