Re: [PATCH v6 00/13] ARMv8.3 pointer authentication userspace support

From: Will Deacon
Date: Wed Dec 12 2018 - 14:35:23 EST


Hi Kristina,

On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 06:39:18PM +0000, Kristina Martsenko wrote:
> This series adds support for the ARMv8.3 pointer authentication extension,
> enabling userspace return address protection with GCC 7 and above.

I've pushed this out to for-next/ptr-auth with the following changes:

* Rebased onto for-next/core
* Dropped the GET/SET ptrace requests for now, due to fragile regset usage
* Moved the user key state from thread_info to thread_struct
* Removed use of VA_BITS for the PAC mask (doesn't work with 52-bit user VAs)
* Added a patch to use _BITUL for the bit definitions in sysreg.h
* Tidied up the HWCAP generation [need to run this past Suzuki]
* Reduced the number of CPU caps from 6 to 4 [also need to run past Suzuki]
* Added Reviewed-by tags

I've not merged it into for-next/core yet, because it could use some testing
and review first.

Cheers,

Will