Look in .note.gnu.property of an ELF file and check if Indirect Branch Tracking needs to be enabled for the task. Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 666dc66a382e..7edb544cef00 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1971,6 +1971,7 @@ config X86_INTEL_BRANCH_TRACKING_USER select X86_INTEL_CET select ARCH_HAS_AS_LIMIT select ARCH_USE_GNU_PROPERTY + select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_STATE ---help--- Indirect Branch Tracking provides hardware protection against return-/jmp- oriented programming attacks. diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index 7ec60b14e96d..a051cfc5242f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -856,6 +856,11 @@ int arch_setup_property(struct arch_elf_state *state) return r; } + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_IBT)) { + if (state->gnu_property & GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_1_IBT) + r = cet_setup_ibt(); + } + return r; } #endif -- 2.17.1