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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Vincenzo Frascino <Vincenzo.Frascino@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Daniel Kiss <daniel.kiss@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Optimize ptrauth by enabling it for non-leaf functions
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:00:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200414100033.GA26395@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1586856741-26839-1-git-send-email-amit.kachhap@arm.com>

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 03:02:21PM +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> Compilers are optimized to not store the stack frame record for the leaf
> function in the stack so applying pointer authentication in the leaf
> function is not useful from security point of view.

I'm missing the reasoning here -- why don't we care about leaf functions?

Sounds like there's a performance/security trade-off that needs spelling
out and justifying with some numbers, or is it clear-cut and I'm missing
something?

Will

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-14 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-14  9:32 [PATCH] arm64: Optimize ptrauth by enabling it for non-leaf functions Amit Daniel Kachhap
2020-04-14 10:00 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2020-04-14 10:16   ` Mark Rutland
2020-04-14 10:58     ` Amit Kachhap
2020-04-14 11:11       ` Mark Rutland
2020-04-14 11:00     ` Will Deacon
2020-04-14 11:09       ` Mark Rutland
2020-04-14 13:10         ` Will Deacon
2020-04-14 14:07           ` Mark Rutland
2020-04-29  8:38             ` Amit Kachhap
2020-04-14 10:49   ` Amit Kachhap

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