On 12/29/2020 4:39 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 02:22:56PM -0800, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
Shadow Stack provides protection against function return address
corruption.  It is active when the processor supports it, the kernel has
CONFIG_X86_CET_USER, and the application is built for the feature.
                     ^
                   enabled.

This is only implemented for the 64-bit kernel.  When it is enabled, legacy
non-Shadow Stack applications continue to work, but without protection.

Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <[email protected]>
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  arch/x86/Kconfig           | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
  arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler |  5 +++++
  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

Rest looks good, thanks.


Thanks!  I will re-base to v5.11-rc1 and send out a new version.

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Yu-cheng

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