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From: Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Cc: enh <enh@google.com>
Subject: Re: [musl] PAC/BTI Support on aarch64
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 05:44:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZcxFJByUgJs500ko@voyager> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240214021925.GC4163@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

Am Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 09:19:25PM -0500 schrieb Rich Felker:
> What is the situation on x86? Does it use the same kind of per-page
> enforcement mode, or is it only global, requiring disabling it if any
> DSO lacks support? Is the endbr64 opcode a guaranteed-safe nop on
> older ISA levels, or does it need to be conditional?
>

My, what a journey. I had a look around the Internet for this question
and kept finding contradictory results. Turns out that is because, as
per kernel documentation, Linux only supports *kernel* IBT. The only
part of CET it supports for userspace is shadow stacks. Unless the
kernel docs are not up-to-date, of course.

According to Intel, the ENDBR64 instruction decodes as NOP on older
processors. GCC has support for emiting it, but at this point in time it
appears to be useless outside of Linux itself.

Ciao,
Markus

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-02-14  4:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-12 16:38 William Roberts
2024-02-12 18:42 ` Rich Felker
2024-02-12 21:25   ` William Roberts
2024-02-12 21:34     ` enh
2024-02-12 22:46     ` Rich Felker
2024-02-12 23:05       ` enh
2024-02-12 23:18         ` William Roberts
2024-02-13  2:08           ` Rich Felker
2024-02-13 14:47             ` William Roberts
2024-02-13 17:51               ` Markus Wichmann
2024-02-14  2:19                 ` Rich Felker
2024-02-14  3:19                   ` William Roberts
2024-02-14  4:44                   ` Markus Wichmann [this message]
2024-02-14 13:32                     ` Thorsten Glaser
2024-02-14 14:03                       ` Rich Felker
2024-02-14 14:12                         ` Thorsten Glaser
2024-02-15 13:29                   ` Stefan O'Rear
2024-02-15 14:06                     ` Rich Felker
2024-03-02 14:33                       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2024-03-02 14:45                         ` Rich Felker
2024-02-15  0:03             ` Szabolcs Nagy
2024-02-15  0:22               ` enh
2024-02-15  9:18                 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2024-02-19 23:54   ` Fangrui Song
     [not found]   ` <DS7PR12MB57659BC5D5536574D1B91D26CB502@DS7PR12MB5765.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
2024-02-20  6:21     ` Anton Korobeynikov

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