[PATCH] aarch64: update NEWS about branch protection
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Jul 29 08:11:57 GMT 2020
* Szabolcs Nagy:
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 1ef4a0a7a4..0e6ad5edc4 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -70,7 +70,9 @@ Major new features:
>
> * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
> in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
> - --enable-standard-branch-protection. This includes branch target
> + --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
> + flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
> + in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
> identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
> (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
> extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
Please clarify if you need to pass the flags in CFLAGS or CC for glibc.
Thanks.
Florian
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