Messages in this thread | | | From | "H.J. Lu" <> | Date | Thu, 7 Jun 2018 15:03:56 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/7] x86: Insert endbr32/endbr64 to vDSO |
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On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 1:50 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:42 AM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> wrote: >> >> From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> >> >> When Intel indirect branch tracking is enabled, functions in vDSO which >> may be called indirectly should have endbr32 or endbr64 as the first >> instruction. We try to compile vDSO with -fcf-protection=branch -mibt >> if possible. Otherwise, we insert endbr32 or endbr64 by hand to assembly >> codes generated by the compiler. > > Wow, that's... a genuine abomination. Do we really need to support > CET on kernels built with old toolchains? >
Yes. GCC 7 should be able to build CET kernel.
-- H.J.
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