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authorIsaac Freund <mail@isaacfreund.com>2022-06-08 14:33:11 +0200
committerIsaac Freund <mail@isaacfreund.com>2022-06-08 14:33:11 +0200
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linker: Enable full RELRO by default
Full RELRO is a hardening feature that makes it impossible to perform certian attacks involving overwriting parts of the Global Offset Table to invoke arbitrary code. It requires all symbols to be resolved before execution of the program starts which may have an impact on startup time. However most if not all popular Linux distributions enable full RELRO by default for all binaries and this does not seem to make a noticeable difference in practice. "Partial RELRO" is equivalent to `-z relro -z lazy`. "Full RELRO" is equivalent to `-z relro -z now`. LLD defaults to `-z relro -z lazy`, which means Zig's current `-z relro` option has no effect on LLD's behavior. The changes made by this commit are as follows: - Document that `-z relro` is the default and add `-z norelro`. - Pass `-z now` to LLD by default to enable full RELRO by default. - Add `-z lazy` to disable passing `-z now`.
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