Re: [RFC PATCH v9 00/27] Control-flow Enforcement: Shadow Stack

Kees Cook
2020-02-25T21:31:32Z

On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 10:19:08AM -0800, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> Control-flow Enforcement (CET) is a new Intel processor feature that blocks
> return/jump-oriented programming attacks. Details can be found in "Intel
> 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual" [1].

At v9, this probably isn't RFC any more. :)

As mentioned in another patch, I'd really like to see some self tests
for this feature. It's relatively complex...

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Kees Cook