V2 [PATCH 0/4] x86: Enable Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET)

Jussi Kivilinna jussi.kivilinna at iki.fi
Wed Jan 22 22:33:38 CET 2020


Hello,

On 19.1.2020 16.40, H.J. Lu via Gcrypt-devel wrote:
> Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET):
> 
> https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sdm
> 
> contains shadow stack (SHSTK) and indirect branch tracking (IBT).  When
> CET is enabled, ELF object files must be marked with .note.gnu.property
> section.  CET enabled compiler provides <cet.h> which can be included
> in assembly sources to automatically generate .note.gnu.property section.
> Also when IBT is enabled, all indirect branch targets must start with
> ENDBR instruction.  <cet.h> defines _CET_ENDBR to generate proper ENDBR
> instruction.
> 
> Tested with
> 
> $ CC="gcc -Wl,-z,cet-report=error -fcf-protection" ./configure
> 
> in i686 and x86-64 modes on Linux CET machine.
> 
> H.J. Lu (4):
>   x86: Add .note.gnu.property section for Intel CET
>   mpi: Add .note.gnu.property section for Intel CET
>   amd64: Always include <config.h> in cipher assembly codes
>   i386: Add _CET_ENDBR to indirect jump targets
> 
>  cipher/camellia-aesni-avx-amd64.S  |  3 ++-
>  cipher/camellia-aesni-avx2-amd64.S |  3 ++-
>  cipher/serpent-avx2-amd64.S        |  3 ++-
>  configure.ac                       |  6 +++++
>  mpi/config.links                   | 10 ++++++++
>  mpi/i386/mpih-add1.S               | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mpi/i386/mpih-sub1.S               | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

Patches have been applied to master. Thanks.

-Jussi



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