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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 13:39:10 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> To: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com> Cc: x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@...hat.com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>, Vedvyas Shanbhogue <vedvyas.shanbhogue@...el.com>, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>, Weijiang Yang <weijiang.yang@...el.com>, Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@...el.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 02/26] x86/cet/shstk: Add Kconfig option for user-mode control-flow protection 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 <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com> > --- > arch/x86/Kconfig | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler | 5 +++++ > 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+) Rest looks good, thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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