On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 04:46:14PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > If KRETPROBES works by messing with the LR at the instnat the function > is entered, that should work similarly. If it works by replacing the > RET it should also work out since any pauth/SCS work will have been > undone by that point. If it attempts to mess with the return address in > the middle of a function then it's not reliable today. I did initially have a patch to disable kretprobes (until v5), but as Mark pointed out back then, the return address is modified before it gets pushed to the shadow stack, so there was no conflict with SCS. I confirmed this on arm64, but haven't looked at other architectures. Sami
