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Commit 18e66b69 authored by Rick Edgecombe's avatar Rick Edgecombe
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x86/shstk: Add Kconfig option for shadow stack



Shadow stack provides protection for applications against function return
address corruption. It is active when the processor supports it, the
kernel has CONFIG_X86_SHADOW_STACK enabled, and the application is built
for the feature. This is only implemented for the 64-bit kernel. When it
is enabled, legacy non-shadow stack applications continue to work, but
without protection.

Since there is another feature that utilizes CET (Kernel IBT) that will
share implementation with shadow stacks, create CONFIG_CET to signify
that at least one CET feature is configured.

Co-developed-by: default avatarYu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarPengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarJohn Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Tested-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-7-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
parent fb47a799
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