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From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/urgent for v5.11-rc7
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 16:45:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210207224540.ercf5657pftibyaw@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wi5z9S7x94SKYNj6qSHBqz+OD76GW=MDzo-KN2Fzm-V4Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 10:15:49AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 9:58 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > It probably is an item on some Intel manager's to-enable list. So far,
> > the CET enablement concentrates only on userspace but dhansen might know
> > more about future plans. CCed.
> 
> I think the new Ryzen 5000 series also supports CET, but I don't have
> any machines to check.
> 
> Hopefully somebody ends up with hardware that supports it and a urge
> to try to make it work in kernel land too.
> 
> I do suspect involved people should start thinking about how they want
> to deal with functions starting with
> 
>         endbr64
>         call __fentry__
> 
> instead of the call being at the very top of the function.

FWIW, objtool's already fine with it (otherwise we would have discovered
the need to disable fcf-protection much sooner).

-- 
Josh


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-07 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-07 10:40 [GIT PULL] x86/urgent for v5.11-rc7 Borislav Petkov
2021-02-07 17:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-02-07 17:58   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-02-07 18:15     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-02-07 18:32       ` Dave Hansen
2021-02-07 18:40         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-02-07 22:45       ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2021-02-08 15:02         ` Steven Rostedt
2021-02-08 15:33           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-02-08 15:47             ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-02-08 16:15               ` Steven Rostedt
2021-02-09  8:32                 ` Miroslav Benes
2021-02-09 14:49                   ` Steven Rostedt
2021-02-09 15:16                     ` Miroslav Benes
2021-02-09 16:45                     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-02-09 16:55                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-02-09 18:09                         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-02-09 18:26                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-02-09 18:39                             ` Linus Torvalds
2021-02-07 18:19     ` Dave Hansen
2021-02-07 18:31       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-02-08 10:33         ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-02-07 20:44       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-02-07 22:35         ` Dave Hansen
2021-02-08 16:11           ` Yu, Yu-cheng
2021-02-07 18:29 ` pr-tracker-bot

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