This will allow elfctl on older releases to set bits that are not yet
known there, so that the binary will have the correct settings applied
if run on a later FreeBSD version.
PR: 252629 (related)
Suggested by: kib
Reviewed by: gbe (manpage, earlier), kib
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28284
This may allow an identical elfctl invocation to be used on multiple
FreeBSD versions, with features not implemented on older releases being
silently ignored.
PR: 252629 (related)
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28130
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
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
2020-03-02 02:36:41 +00:00
Renamed from tools/tools/controlelf/controlelf.1 (Browse further)
