Kindly ping maintainers for KVM part review, thanks! On 9/14/2023 2:33 PM, Yang Weijiang wrote:
Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) is a kind of CPU feature used to prevent Return/CALL/Jump-Oriented Programming (ROP/COP/JOP) attacks. It provides two sub-features(SHSTK,IBT) to defend against ROP/COP/JOP style control-flow subversion attacks. Shadow Stack (SHSTK): A shadow stack is a second stack used exclusively for control transfer operations. The shadow stack is separate from the data/normal stack and can be enabled individually in user and kernel mode. When shadow stack is enabled, CALL pushes the return address on both the data and shadow stack. RET pops the return address from both stacks and compares them. If the return addresses from the two stacks do not match, the processor generates a #CP. Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT): IBT introduces new instruction(ENDBRANCH)to mark valid target addresses of indirect branches (CALL, JMP etc...). If an indirect branch is executed and the next instruction is _not_ an ENDBRANCH, the processor generates a #CP. These instruction behaves as a NOP on platforms that doesn't support CET.
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