Re: [PATCH v5 00/15] x86: Add support for Clang CFI

[Mark Rutland]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 12:55:17PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Mark Rutland
> > Sent: 27 October 2021 13:05
> ...
> > Taking a step back, it'd be nicer if we didn't have the jump-table shim
> > at all, and had some SW landing pad (e.g. a NOP with some magic bytes)
> > in the callees that the caller could check for. Then function pointers
> > would remain callable in call cases, and we could explcitly add landing
> > pads to asm to protect those. I *think* that's what the grsecurity folk
> > do, but I could be mistaken.
> 
> It doesn't need to be a 'landing pad'.
> The 'magic value' could be at 'label - 8'.

Sure; I'd intended to mean the general case of something at some fixed
offset from the entrypoint, either before or after, potentially but not
necessarily inline in the executed instruction stream.

Mark.