linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH 17/17] arm64: allow CONFIG_CFI

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Date:   Tue, 16 Mar 2021 13:44:33 -0700
From:   Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        PCI <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/17] arm64: allow CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to be selected

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:51 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 04:49:19PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > Select ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG to allow CFI to be enabled.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>
> Random thought: the vDSO doesn't need special handling because it
> doesn't make any indirect calls, yes?

That might be true, but we also filter out CC_FLAGS_LTO for the vDSO,
which disables CFI as well.

Sami