elfctl has been merged to stable/12, and so will appear in FreeBSD 12.2
Reported by: Dewayne Geraghty
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This will be used to tag binaries that require W+X mappings, in advance
of the ability to prevent W^X in mmap/mprotect.
There is still some discussion about the flag's name, but the ABI won't
change even if the name does (as kib pointed out in the review).
Reviewed by: csjp, kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23909
GCC points out a couple levels down in convert_to_features that this may be
used uninitialized. Indeed, this is true- initialize it to NULL so that we
at least deref a null pointer.
elfctl is a tool for modifying the NT_FREEBSD_FEATURE_CTL ELF note,
which contains a set of flags for enabling or disabling vulnerability
mitigations and other features.
Reviewed by: csjp, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23910
