linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/RFT 0/3] Add compiler support for Control Flow Integrity

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Date:   Wed, 8 Feb 2023 21:32:03 -0800
From:   Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>
To:     Dan Li <ashimida.1990@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT 0/3] Add compiler support for Control Flow Integrity

On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 10:06 PM Dan Li <ashimida.1990@...il.com> wrote:
>
> This series of patches is mainly used to support the control flow
> integrity protection of the linux kernel [1], which is similar to
> -fsanitize=kcfi in clang 16.0 [2,3].
>
> I hope that this feature will also support user-mode CFI in the
> future (at least for developers who can recompile the runtime),
> so I use -fsanitize=cfi as a compilation option here.

Please don't. The various CFI-related build flags are confusing enough
without also having this inconsistency between Clang and GCC.

Peter