Re: [RFC PATCH v3 05/24] Documentation/x86: Add CET description

From
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Date
2018-09-03 02:57:21
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Reply to
Yu-cheng Yu, 2018-08-30
Hi,

One spello:

On 08/30/2018 07:38 AM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel_cet.rst b/Documentation/x86/intel_cet.rst
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+=========================================
+Control Flow Enforcement Technology (CET)
+=========================================
+
+[1] Overview
+============
+
+Control Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) provides protection against
+return/jump-oriented programing (ROP) attacks.  It can be implemented
                        programming
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+to protect both the kernel and applications.  In the first phase,
+only the user-mode protection is implemented for the 64-bit kernel.
+Thirty-two bit applications are supported under the compatibility
+mode.

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~Randy
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