Re: [PATCH] objtool: Detect assembly code falling through to INT3 padding

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 12:27:15AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/18/18 00:18, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, this is cool, it addresses the robustness problem that INT3 padding introduced 
> > very nicely.
> > 
> > The concept of built-in kernel tooling working at the machine code level is just 
> > so powerful - we should have added our own KCC compiler 20 years ago.
> > 
> 
> How many times has this been suggested? ;)

Goes to show we still really need it. Imagine the simplifications and
improvements we'll be able to do. Oh myyy....

/me has a wet dream.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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