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gh-139808: Add branch protections for aarch64 in asm_trampoline.S (#130864)
authorstratakis <cstratak@redhat.com>
Tue, 12 May 2026 15:42:44 +0000 (17:42 +0200)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>
Tue, 12 May 2026 15:42:44 +0000 (15:42 +0000)
commitda8477b25c6124c961306d4d7cd5ec7dafda6be4
treeb3c5cfea313ba8b0fc6452cd1b79fcb11557d066
parent0534774a472424f6b9be2dc4ce9784384bc02401
gh-139808: Add branch protections for aarch64 in asm_trampoline.S (#130864)

Apply protection against ROP/JOP attacks for aarch64 on asm_trampoline.S.

The BTI flag must be applied in assembler sources for this class
of attacks to be mitigated on newer aarch64 processors.

See also:
https://sourceware.org/annobin/annobin.html/Test-branch-protection.html
and
https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architectures-and-processors-blog/posts/enabling-pac-and-bti-on-aarch64

Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-05-12-16-47-23.gh-issue-139808.iIs7_E.rst [new file with mode: 0644]
Python/asm_trampoline.S
Python/asm_trampoline_aarch64.h [new file with mode: 0644]
Python/jit_unwind.c