Hi, Segher, > On Oct 29, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> > wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 06:02:58PM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote: >> Qing Zhao via Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> writes: >>>>> +Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) or preventing information leak >>>> >>>> leakage >>>> >>>> (FWIW, I'm not sure “mitigating ROP” is really correct usage, but I don't >>>> have any better suggestions.) >>> >>> Do you mean whether “mitigating ROP’ is one of the major purpose of this >>> new feature? >> >> No, I meant just the English usage. E.g., I think you mitigate the >> damage caused by earthquakes rather than mitigate earthquakes themselves. >> But I could be wrong. It's not a word I use very often ;-) > > "Mitigating ROP attacks" is a phrase often used in the literature, sadly > (what is really meant is not "mitigating the effects of ROP attacks", > but simply "making ROP attacks less likely to succeed" -- it is almost > always a binary thing, either it succeeds or it doesn't).
Thanks. I will change “Mitigating ROP” to “Mitigating ROP attacks” in the documentation. Qing > > > Segher