[llvm] [BOLT][binary-analysis] Fix pac-ret scanner's "major limitation" (PR #136664)

[Anatoly Trosinenko via llvm-commits]

Gergely =?utf-8?q?Bálint?=,Gergely Balint <gergely.balint at arm.com>,Gergely
 Balint <gergely.balint at arm.com>
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In-Reply-To: <llvm.org/llvm/llvm-project/pull/136664 at github.com>


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@@ -632,8 +635,15 @@ bool CFIReaderWriter::fillCFIInfoFor(BinaryFunction &Function) const {
       // DW_CFA_GNU_window_save and DW_CFA_GNU_NegateRAState just use the same
       // id but mean different things. The latter is used in AArch64.
       if (Function.getBinaryContext().isAArch64()) {
-        Function.addCFIInstruction(
-            Offset, MCCFIInstruction::createNegateRAState(nullptr));
+        // llvm-bolt-binary-analysis and llvm-heatmap do not need this CFI, as
+        // they are not producing a binary. For other tools, we should refuse
+        // processing the binary, until PAC support is added.
+        if (!(opts::BinaryAnalysisMode || opts::HeatmapMode)) {
+          BC.errs() << "BOLT-ERROR: pointer authentication is not supported "
+                       "yet. Please compile "
+                       "your target binary using '-mbranch-protection=none'.\n";
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atrosinenko wrote:

[nit] The layout is a bit surprising :)
```suggestion
          BC.errs() << "BOLT-ERROR: pointer authentication is not supported "
                       "yet. Please compile your target binary using "
                       "'-mbranch-protection=none'.\n";
```

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/136664