Cyanogenmod 12 might be one of the most awaited ROM’s of 2015. All though no specific release date has been given, we can soon expect it to roll out developers might drop support for older Android devices due to issues with PIE.
According to a discussion on a CM 12 code review thread the PIE feature has a huge security impact on several Samsung devices (The Galaxy Note 2 is mentioned as the primary device causing issues). This could mean we could see Cyanogenmod 12 not being released on a lot of older devices, it is yet unknown how many devices this affects but it is safe to say the Note 2 is out of the picture.
For those unaware, PIE is a body of machine code that, being placed somewhere in the primary memory, executes properly regardless of its absolute address
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Do you even know what PIE is? PIE is not pie controls. It’s a security feature.
Wow. This article is just plain stupid. PIE has nothing to do with Pie Controls. It’s possible to find solutions to this kind of issue (albeit it’s nasty).
Not to mention the fact that the Note 2 is getting lollipop officially which means things could change.
The PIE here refers to Position-independent executables. Read up on ASLR to understand why that is bad.
We must have read two different code reviews. The one you linked clearly says they are working around it and that the commit that would introduce security bugs won’t get merged anytime soon
What about the galaxy s3, it is older than the Note 2.
As of now we don’t know much. We expect to hear more when CM12 is officially released.
It is not safe to say the Note 2 is out of the picture
Unofficially it got it, but maybe there won’t be official CM12 for it
This article is click bait. Read the discussion on that issue linked. They are working around the issue just fine.
WTF is this? I already have unofficial CM12 in my note 2!
Unofficial…
This stupid website confused PIE with Pie Control. They fixed it. But now I know it is not worth the time reading anything from them.
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