[PATCH v12 1/8] x86/cet/ibt: Add Kconfig option for user-mode Indirect Branch Tracking
From: Yu-cheng Yu <hidden>
Date: 2020-09-18 19:24:37
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linux-arch, linux-doc, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem:
the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers:
Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen
Introduce Kconfig option X86_INTEL_BRANCH_TRACKING_USER. Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) provides protection against CALL-/JMP- oriented programming attacks. It is active when the kernel has this feature enabled, and the processor and the application support it. When this feature is enabled, legacy non-IBT applications continue to work, but without IBT protection. Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <redacted> --- v10: - Change build-time CET check to config depends on. arch/x86/Kconfig | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 6b6dad011763..b047e0a8d1c2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig@@ -1963,6 +1963,22 @@ config X86_INTEL_SHADOW_STACK_USER If unsure, say y. +config X86_INTEL_BRANCH_TRACKING_USER + prompt "Intel Indirect Branch Tracking for user-mode" + def_bool n + depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_64 + depends on $(cc-option,-fcf-protection) + select X86_INTEL_CET + help + Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) provides protection against + CALL-/JMP-oriented programming attacks. It is active when + the kernel has this feature enabled, and the processor and + the application support it. When this feature is enabled, + legacy non-IBT applications continue to work, but without + IBT protection. + + If unsure, say y + config EFI bool "EFI runtime service support" depends on ACPI
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