Re: [GIT PULL] x86/shstk change for v6.10
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon May 13 2024 - 22:38:42 EST
On Mon, 13 May 2024 at 01:13, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Enable shadow stacks for x32.
>
> While we normally don't do such feature-enabling on 32-bit
> kernels anymore, this change is small, straightforward & tested on
> upstream glibc.
Color me confused.
"feature-enabling on 32-bit kernels"
This is not for 32-bit kernels, as far as I can tell. This is just the
x32 user mode for x86-64 kernels.
Or am I missing something?
I've pulled this, but does anybody actually use x32? I feel like it
was a failed experiment. No?
Linus