Re: [PATCH v18 02/25] x86/cet/shstk: Add Kconfig option for user-mode control-flow protection
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From: Dave Hansen <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-29 19:43:30
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On 1/27/21 1:25 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
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+ help + Control-flow protection is a hardware security hardening feature + that detects function-return address or jump target changes by + malicious code.
It's not really one feature. I also think it's not worth talking about
shadow stacks or indirect branch tracking in *here*. Leave that for
Documentation/.
Just say:
Control-flow protection is a set of hardware features which
place additional restrictions on indirect branches. These help
mitigate ROP attacks.
... and add more in the IBT patches.
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Applications must be enabled to use it, and old + userspace does not get protection "for free". + Support for this feature is present on processors released in + 2020 or later. Enabling this feature increases kernel text size + by 3.7 KB.
Did any CPUs ever get released that have this? If so, name them. If
not, time to change this to 2021, I think.