Thread (222 messages) 222 messages, 21 authors, 2022-11-03

Re: [PATCH v2 33/39] x86/cpufeatures: Limit shadow stack to Intel CPUs

From: Kees Cook <hidden>
Date: 2022-10-03 23:57:48
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 03:29:30PM -0700, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
Shadow stack is supported on newer AMD processors, but the kernel
implementation has not been tested on them. Prevent basic issues from
showing up for normal users by disabling shadow stack on all CPUs except
Intel until it has been tested. At which point the limitation should be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
So running the selftests on an AMD system is sufficient to drop this
patch?

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Kees Cook
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