From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev>,
David Gow <david@davidgow.net>, Rae Moar <raemoar63@gmail.com>,
llvm@lists.linux.dev, kunit-dev@googlegroups.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kunit: cfi: Add test for kCFI indirect-call type checks
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:42:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202606191341.05539A72B1@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260619093708.GT49951@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 11:37:08AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This is really rather horrible. Also, now all an attacker needs to do is
> ensure cfi_kunit_handled() unconditionally returns true. IOW, no distro
> must ever have this KUNIT crap enabled.
Isn't that already true? I thought, like LKDTM, nothing ships with KUnit
built in?
--
Kees Cook
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-19 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-18 21:09 [PATCH v2] kunit: cfi: Add test for kCFI indirect-call type checks Kees Cook
2026-06-19 9:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-06-19 9:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-06-19 20:44 ` Kees Cook
2026-06-19 20:54 ` Kees Cook
2026-06-19 20:42 ` Kees Cook [this message]
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