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Dropping the .altinstr_replacement section from the toolchain#414

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Dropping the .altinstr_replacement section from the toolchain#414
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One sentence summary of this PR (This should go in the CHANGELOG!)
We also want to drop the .altinstr_replacement section when we are performing patches

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This PR adds .altinstr_replacement to the toolchain's linker section droplist

Anyone you think should look at this, specifically?
@rbs-afflitto also ran into this issue

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This looks good to me

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whyitfor commented Feb 9, 2024

This needs a Changelog entry for ofrak-patch-maker.

Probably can be considered a bugfix.

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I'm curious what triggered discovery of this issue. Has it always been around, or is this something new? Did a change create it?

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We observed this section when working on code for AARCH64 Linux 4

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Pending further feedback, can we merge this in?

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LGTM

@whyitfor whyitfor merged commit 8a94589 into redballoonsecurity:master Feb 13, 2024
ANogin pushed a commit to ANogin/ofrak that referenced this pull request Feb 18, 2024
…loonsecurity#414)

* Dropping the .altinstr_replacement section from the toolchain

* Updated CHANGELOG
whyitfor added a commit that referenced this pull request Feb 22, 2024
* Use python3.8 in docker images

* Require pytest<8.0

This is needed becase of pytest-dev/pytest#11890
TvoroG/pytest-lazy-fixture#65

* Update changelog

* Revert "Update changelog"

This reverts commit 500ee9b.

Making changes before having coffee :(

* Update to latest angr==9.2.89, which also necessitates Python >= 3.8 and capstone==5.0.0.post1

* Apply Edward's attempted fix to angr test failure

* Add a note on recommending Python 3.8

* Add a note on recommending Python 3.8

* Document the requirement of Python 3.8+

* Switch to angr 9.2.77

* `ofrak_core` also needs `pytest<8.0`

* ignore DataWord in test due to angr bug

* add another now missing block

* black linting

* Attempt to fix a capstone error

* Dropping the .altinstr_replacement section from the toolchain (#414)

* Dropping the .altinstr_replacement section from the toolchain

* Updated CHANGELOG

* Set the fallback font to monospace (#422)

* Set the fallback font to monospace

* Update CHANGELOG

* Display strings with numbers primarily as strings (#423)

* Display strings with numbers primarily as strings

* Update CHANGELOG

* Add typing support to ofrak_ghidra package (#421)

* Add typing to ofrak_ghidra package

* Add changelog

---------

Co-authored-by: Paul Noalhyt <paul@redballoonsecurity.com>

* Increase time limit on `test_comment_content`

* Fix a spurious "no current event loop" test error

* Explain 3.7 vs 3.8 better in the docs

* Cite specific versions of angr in comment

* Update docs/environment-setup.md

* Update docs/getting-started.md

---------

Co-authored-by: Edward Larson <edward@redballoonsecurity.com>
Co-authored-by: rbs-alexr <122491504+rbs-alexr@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jacob Strieb <99368685+rbs-jacob@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Noalhyt <paul.noalhyt@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Noalhyt <paul@redballoonsecurity.com>
Co-authored-by: Wyatt <53830972+whyitfor@users.noreply.github.com>
ANogin pushed a commit to ANogin/ofrak that referenced this pull request May 30, 2024
…loonsecurity#414)

* Dropping the .altinstr_replacement section from the toolchain

* Updated CHANGELOG
ANogin pushed a commit to ANogin/ofrak that referenced this pull request May 30, 2024
* Use python3.8 in docker images

* Require pytest<8.0

This is needed becase of pytest-dev/pytest#11890
TvoroG/pytest-lazy-fixture#65

* Update changelog

* Revert "Update changelog"

This reverts commit 500ee9b.

Making changes before having coffee :(

* Update to latest angr==9.2.89, which also necessitates Python >= 3.8 and capstone==5.0.0.post1

* Apply Edward's attempted fix to angr test failure

* Add a note on recommending Python 3.8

* Add a note on recommending Python 3.8

* Document the requirement of Python 3.8+

* Switch to angr 9.2.77

* `ofrak_core` also needs `pytest<8.0`

* ignore DataWord in test due to angr bug

* add another now missing block

* black linting

* Attempt to fix a capstone error

* Dropping the .altinstr_replacement section from the toolchain (redballoonsecurity#414)

* Dropping the .altinstr_replacement section from the toolchain

* Updated CHANGELOG

* Set the fallback font to monospace (redballoonsecurity#422)

* Set the fallback font to monospace

* Update CHANGELOG

* Display strings with numbers primarily as strings (redballoonsecurity#423)

* Display strings with numbers primarily as strings

* Update CHANGELOG

* Add typing support to ofrak_ghidra package (redballoonsecurity#421)

* Add typing to ofrak_ghidra package

* Add changelog

---------

Co-authored-by: Paul Noalhyt <paul@redballoonsecurity.com>

* Increase time limit on `test_comment_content`

* Fix a spurious "no current event loop" test error

* Explain 3.7 vs 3.8 better in the docs

* Cite specific versions of angr in comment

* Update docs/environment-setup.md

* Update docs/getting-started.md

---------

Co-authored-by: Edward Larson <edward@redballoonsecurity.com>
Co-authored-by: rbs-alexr <122491504+rbs-alexr@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jacob Strieb <99368685+rbs-jacob@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Noalhyt <paul.noalhyt@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Noalhyt <paul@redballoonsecurity.com>
Co-authored-by: Wyatt <53830972+whyitfor@users.noreply.github.com>
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