Re: [RFC PATCH v2 17/27] x86/cet/shstk: User-mode shadow stack support

[Dave Hansen]

On 07/10/2018 03:26 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> +static __init int setup_disable_shstk(char *s)
> +{
> +	/* require an exact match without trailing characters */
> +	if (strlen(s))
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SHSTK))
> +		return 1;
> +
> +	setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_SHSTK);
> +	pr_info("x86: 'no_cet_shstk' specified, disabling Shadow Stack\n");
> +	return 1;
> +}
> +__setup("no_cet_shstk", setup_disable_shstk);

Why do we need a boot-time disable for this?