[PATCH v2 1/6] aarch64: Fix missing BTI protection from dependencies [BZ #26926]

Szabolcs Nagy szabolcs.nagy at arm.com
Fri Dec 11 10:33:34 EST 2020


The 12/10/2020 14:51, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> On 27/11/2020 10:19, Szabolcs Nagy via Libc-alpha wrote:
> > The _dl_open_check and _rtld_main_check hooks are not called on the
> > dependencies of a loaded module, so BTI protection was missed on
> > every module other than the main executable and directly dlopened
> > libraries.
> > 
> > The fix just iterates over dependencies to enable BTI.
> > 
> > Fixes bug 26926.
> 
> LGTM, modulus the argument name change.
> 
> I also think it would be better to add a testcase, for both DT_NEEDED
> and dlopen case.

thanks, i committed this with fixed argument name as attached.

i plan to do tests later once i understand the BTI semantics
(right now it's not clear if in the presence of some W^X
policy BTI may be silently ignored or not).
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