Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Feb 2021 18:58:14 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86/urgent for v5.11-rc7 |
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On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 09:49:18AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 2:40 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> wrote: > > > > - Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel so that gcc doesn't add > > ENDBR64 to kernel code and thus confuse tracing. > > So this is clearly the right thing to do for now, but I wonder if > people have a plan for actually enabling CET and endbr at cpl0 at some > point?
It probably is an item on some Intel manager's to-enable list. So far, the CET enablement concentrates only on userspace but dhansen might know more about future plans. CCed.
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