Re: [PATCH v15 01/26] Documentation/x86: Add CET description

On 11/30/2020 10:26 AM, Nick Desaulniers wrote:

(In response to https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201110162211.9207-2-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com/ (local))

quoted

These need to be enabled to build a CET-enabled kernel, and Binutils v2.31
and GCC v8.1 or later are required to build a CET kernel.

What about LLVM? Surely CrOS might be of interest to ship this on (we ship the
equivalent for aarch64 on Android).

I have not built with LLVM, but think it probably will work as well.  I 
will test it.

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An application's CET capability is marked in its ELF header and can be
verified from the following command output, in the NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0
field:

     readelf -n <application> | grep SHSTK
         properties: x86 feature: IBT, SHSTK

Same for llvm-readelf.

I will add that to the document.

Thanks,
Yu-cheng