[PATCH] NEWS: Mention PLT rewrite on x86-64

Noah Goldstein goldstein.w.n@gmail.com
Tue Jan 16 19:00:40 GMT 2024


On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 9:39 AM H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mention PLT rewrite on x86-64 for glibc 2.39.
> ---
>  NEWS | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 16afc4f869..72e9d70e1f 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Version 2.39
>
>  Major new features:
>
> +* A new tunable, glibc.cpu.plt_rewrite, can be used to enable PLT
> +  rewrite on x86-64.  When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
> +  linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
> +
>  * Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface.  The --enable-cet
>    configure option in only supported on x86-64.
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>

LGTM.


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