[PATCH] Support AT_FXRNG and AT_KPRELOAD on FreeBSD.

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 13:13:59 GMT 2021


On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 11:11:55AM +0000, Andrew Burgess via Binutils wrote:
> * John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> [2021-12-06 13:31:14 -0800]:
> 
> > FreeBSD's kernel has recently added two new ELF auxiliary vector
> > entries.  AT_FXRNG points to a root seed version for the kernel's
> > PRNG.  Userland can use this to reseed a userland PRNG after the
> > kernel's PRNG has reseeded.  AT_KPRELOAD is the base address of a
> > kernel-provided vDSO.
> 
> This all looks good to me.  I can only approve the GDB side of things
> though.

Oh go on, be brave and claim the include/elf/ changes are obvious.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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