From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 1/7] x86/cet/ibt: Add Kconfig option for user-mode Indirect Branch Tracking
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 22:15:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201012191511.GC14048@grain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201012154530.28382-2-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 08:45:24AM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
...
> + the application support it. When this feature is enabled,
> + legacy non-IBT applications continue to work, but without
> + IBT protection.
> + Support for this feature is only known to be present on
> + processors released in 2020 or later. CET features are also
> + known to increase kernel text size by 3.7 KB.
It seems the last sentence is redundant - new features always bloat
the kernel code and precise size may differ depending on compiler
and options. Surely this can be patched on top.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-12 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-12 15:45 [PATCH v14 0/7] Control-flow Enforcement: Indirect Branch Tracking Yu-cheng Yu
2020-10-12 15:45 ` [PATCH v14 1/7] x86/cet/ibt: Add Kconfig option for user-mode " Yu-cheng Yu
2020-10-12 19:15 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2020-10-12 20:29 ` Yu, Yu-cheng
2020-10-12 15:45 ` [PATCH v14 2/7] x86/cet/ibt: User-mode Indirect Branch Tracking support Yu-cheng Yu
2020-10-12 15:45 ` [PATCH v14 3/7] x86/cet/ibt: Handle signals for Indirect Branch Tracking Yu-cheng Yu
2020-10-12 15:45 ` [PATCH v14 4/7] x86/cet/ibt: ELF header parsing " Yu-cheng Yu
2020-10-12 15:45 ` [PATCH v14 5/7] x86/cet/ibt: Update arch_prctl functions " Yu-cheng Yu
2020-10-12 15:45 ` [PATCH v14 6/7] x86/vdso/32: Add ENDBR32 to __kernel_vsyscall entry point Yu-cheng Yu
2020-10-12 15:45 ` [PATCH v14 7/7] x86/vdso: Insert endbr32/endbr64 to vDSO Yu-cheng Yu
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