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27.Dd October 5, 2023
28.Dt ELFCTL 1
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm elfctl
32.Nd change an ELF binary's feature control note
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm
35.Op Fl h | Fl -help
36.Op Fl i
37.Op Fl l
38.Op Fl e Ar featurelist
39.Ar
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Nm
43utility modifies feature flags in the feature control note in an ELF binary.
44.Pp
45The options are as follows:
46.Bl -tag -width indent
47.It Fl h | Fl -help
48Print a usage message and exit.
49.It Fl i
50Ignore unknown feature flags in
51.Ar featurelist .
52.It Fl l
53List known ELF feature flags.
54.It Fl e Ar featurelist
55Edit features from the given comma separated list
56.Ar featurelist .
57.Ar featurelist
58starts with one of the three operations:
59.Dq Li +
60to turn on the features,
61.Dq Li -
62to turn off the features,
63.Dq Li =
64to only turn on the given features.
65A comma separated list of feature names or numeric values follows the
66operation.
67.El
68.Pp
69If
70.Fl e
71is not specified
72.Nm
73displays the status of each feature in the ELF note in each
74.Ar .
75.Sh EXIT STATUS
76Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command
77fails if a file does not exist, is too short,
78or fails to find or edit features note.
79.Sh EXAMPLES
80The following is an example of a typical usage
81of the
82.Nm
83command:
84.Bd -literal -offset indent
85elfctl file
86elfctl -e +noaslr file
87.Ed
88.Pp
89Features may be specified as numerical values:
90.Bd -literal -offset -indent
91elfctl -e =0x0001,0x0004 file
92.Ed
93.Pp
94Features may also be specified as a single combined value:
95.Bd -literal -offset -indent
96elfctl -e =0x5 file
97.Ed
98.Sh SEE ALSO
99.Xr mitigations 7
100.Sh HISTORY
101.Nm
102first appeared in
103.Fx 12.2 .
104.Sh AUTHORS
105.Nm
106was written by
107.An Bora Ozarslan Mt borako.ozarslan@gmail.com
108under sponsorship from the
109.Fx Foundation.
110