Re: [PATCH 17/17] arm64: allow CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to be selected

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Mar 16 2021 - 19:03:36 EST


On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:51 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 04:49:19PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > > Select ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI_CLANG to allow CFI to be enabled.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Random thought: the vDSO doesn't need special handling because it
> > doesn't make any indirect calls, yes?
>
> That might be true, but we also filter out CC_FLAGS_LTO for the vDSO,
> which disables CFI as well.

Oh right! That would do it. :)

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Kees Cook