RE: [PATCH v26 0/9] Control-flow Enforcement: Indirect Branch Tracking

David Laight
2021-04-28T14:48:40Z

From: Yu-cheng Yu
> Sent: 27 April 2021 21:47
>
> Control-flow Enforcement (CET) is a new Intel processor feature that blocks
> return/jump-oriented programming attacks. Details are in "Intel 64 and
> IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual" [1].
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Does this feature require that 'binary blobs' for out of tree drivers
be compiled by a version of gcc that adds the ENDBRA instructions?

If enabled for userspace, what happens if an old .so is dynamically
loaded?
Or do all userspace programs and libraries have to have been compiled
with the ENDBRA instructions?

David

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