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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 10:04:43 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 25/27] x86: enable initial Rust support
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 04:15:33PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 10:18 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 03:14:56PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > > Note that only x86_64 is covered and not all features nor mitigations
> > > are handled, but it is enough as a starting point and showcases
> > > the basics needed to add Rust support for a new architecture.
> >
> > Does it fail the build if required options are missing? Specifically are
> > things like kCFI and IBT enabled? Silently not handling those will
> > result in an unbootable image.
>
> Rust supports IBT with -Z cf-protection=branch, but I don't see this
> option being enabled in the kernel yet. Cross-language CFI is going to
> require a lot more work though because the type systems are not quite
> compatible:
Right; so where does that leave us? Are we going to force disable rust
when kCFI is selected ?
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