Re: [PATCH v17 00/26] Control-flow Enforcement: Shadow Stack

[Yu, Yu-cheng]

On 12/29/2020 1:30 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> 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].
>
> CET can protect applications and the kernel.  This series enables only
> application-level protection, and has three parts:
>
>    - Shadow stack [2],
>    - Indirect branch tracking [3], and
>    - Selftests [4].
>
> I have run tests on these patches for quite some time, and they have been
> very stable.  Linux distributions with CET are available now, and Intel
> processors with CET are already on the market.  It would be nice if CET
> support can be accepted into the kernel.  I will be working to address any
> issues should they come up.
>
> Changes in v17:
> - Rebase to v5.11-rc1.

Hi Reviewers,

After a few revisions/re-bases, I have dropped some Reviewed-by tags. 
This revision is only a re-base to the latest Linus tree.  Please kindly 
comment if there are anything still not resolved, and I appreciate very 
much Reviewed-by/Acked-by tags to satisfactory patches.

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Thanks,
Yu-cheng