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This patch brings: * unified handling of pointer authentication options through: `-Zpointer-authentication`, with possible values: `aarch64-jump-table-hardening`, `auth-traps`, `calls`, `elf-got`, `function-pointer-type-discrimination`, `indirect-gotos`, `init-fini`, `init-fini-address-discrimination`, `return-addresses`. Toggled with `+`/`-`. * centralized handling of pointer authentication features. Session holds `pointer_auth_config: Option<PointerAuthConfig>` * encapsulation of schema for function pointers and init/fini through `PointerAuthSchema`. This allowed for retiring of `PacMetadata`. * refactor enabling of pointer authentication in code, instead of relying on the target (`pauthtest`) use the session
Also improve the API design of pointer_authentication_functions, by making it return Option<&PointerAuthSchema>, rather than bool.
This patch implements Rust's equivalent of Clang's function pointer type discriminator computation used in pointer authentication. Compatibility with Clang is a primary goal. The discriminator produced for a given external "C" function type must match the value computed by Clang so that function pointers can be exchanged safely between Rust and C code while preserving pointer authentication semantics. The implementation mirrors Clang's behavior in `ASTContext::encodeTypeForFunctionPointerAuth`, ensuring that identical C-compatible function types produce identical discriminators. See: <https://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/ASTContext_8cpp.html#abb1375e068e807917527842d05cadea3>.
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This patch implements Rust's equivalent of Clang's function pointer type discriminator computation used in pointer authentication. Compatibility with Clang is a primary goal. The discriminator produced for a given external "C" function type must match the value computed by Clang so that function pointers can be exchanged safely between Rust and C code while preserving pointer authentication semantics.
The implementation mirrors Clang's behavior in
ASTContext::encodeTypeForFunctionPointerAuth, ensuring that identical C-compatible function types produce identical discriminators. See: https://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/ASTContext_8cpp.html#abb1375e068e807917527842d05cadea3.This is part 1 of a sequence of 8 PRs, that together aim to bring function pointer type discrimination support:
Useful links:
pauthtestintroduction: Introduce aarch64-unknown-linux-pauthtest target #155722