Soft-deprecate GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_PAC #121
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@smithp35 @DanielKristofKiss FYI clarifying the meaning of the PAC program property. |
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Users should not rely on this property to enquire about the status of the protection of an ELF file. If it is present, then yes, the file has been protected. If it is not present, it can still have been protected to some extent. The comment on Custom PLT protection has also been removed. This protection is seen as a separate feature to PAC-ret, since you could ask the linker to generate protected PLTs regardless of the presence of PAC-ret.
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@smithp35 I updated a new patch with your two suggestions. |
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| executable sections have been protected with Return Address Signing. | ||
| Its use is optional, meaning that an ELF file where this feature bit | ||
| is unset can still have Return Address signing enabled in some or all | ||
| its executable sections. |
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Users should not rely on this property to enquire about the status
of the protection of an ELF file. If it is present, then yes, the
file has been protected. If it is not present, it can still have
been protected to some extent.
The comment on Custom PLT protection has also been removed. This
protection is seen as a separate feature to PAC-ret, since you could
ask the linker to generate protected PLTs regardless of the presence
of PAC-ret.