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SubjectRe: [PATCH v17 00/26] Control-flow Enforcement: Shadow Stack
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On 12/29/2020 1:30 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> Control-flow Enforcement (CET) is a new Intel processor feature that blocks
> return/jump-oriented programming attacks. Details are in "Intel 64 and
> IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual" [1].
>
> CET can protect applications and the kernel. This series enables only
> application-level protection, and has three parts:
>
> - Shadow stack [2],
> - Indirect branch tracking [3], and
> - Selftests [4].
>
> I have run tests on these patches for quite some time, and they have been
> very stable. Linux distributions with CET are available now, and Intel
> processors with CET are already on the market. It would be nice if CET
> support can be accepted into the kernel. I will be working to address any
> issues should they come up.
>
> Changes in v17:
> - Rebase to v5.11-rc1.

Hi Reviewers,

After a few revisions/re-bases, I have dropped some Reviewed-by tags.
This revision is only a re-base to the latest Linus tree. Please kindly
comment if there are anything still not resolved, and I appreciate very
much Reviewed-by/Acked-by tags to satisfactory patches.

--
Thanks,
Yu-cheng

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