From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-it0-f69.google.com (mail-it0-f69.google.com [209.85.214.69]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F216B659C for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2018 22:57:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-it0-f69.google.com with SMTP id a10-v6so11305969itc.9 for ; Sun, 02 Sep 2018 19:57:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merlin.infradead.org (merlin.infradead.org. [2001:8b0:10b:1231::1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b24-v6si11058267ioc.280.2018.09.02.19.57.21 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Sun, 02 Sep 2018 19:57:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 05/24] Documentation/x86: Add CET description References: <20180830143904.3168-1-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> <20180830143904.3168-6-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: <709e5e6c-dab1-7a20-9641-b36a0867c006@infradead.org> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 19:56:55 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180830143904.3168-6-yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Yu-cheng Yu , x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Andy Lutomirski , Balbir Singh , Cyrill Gorcunov , Dave Hansen , Florian Weimer , "H.J. Lu" , Jann Horn , Jonathan Corbet , Kees Cook , Mike Kravetz , Nadav Amit , Oleg Nesterov , Pavel Machek , Peter Zijlstra , "Ravi V. Shankar" , Vedvyas Shanbhogue Hi, One spello: On 08/30/2018 07:38 AM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote: > diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel_cet.rst b/Documentation/x86/intel_cet.rst > new file mode 100644 > index 000000000000..337baa1f6980 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/Documentation/x86/intel_cet.rst > @@ -0,0 +1,252 @@ > +========================================= > +Control Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) > +========================================= > + > +[1] Overview > +============ > + > +Control Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) provides protection against > +return/jump-oriented programing (ROP) attacks. It can be implemented programming > +to protect both the kernel and applications. In the first phase, > +only the user-mode protection is implemented for the 64-bit kernel. > +Thirty-two bit applications are supported under the compatibility > +mode. -- ~Randy