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X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Mark Rutland , Catalin Marinas , Mark Brown , James Morse , Vincenzo Frascino , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Daniel Kiss Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org 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 _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel