On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:04:46PM +0100, Boyan Karatotev wrote: > Pointer Authentication (PAuth) is a security feature introduced in ARMv8.3. > It introduces instructions to sign addresses and later check for potential > corruption using a second modifier value and one of a set of keys. The > signature, in the form of the Pointer Authentication Code (PAC), is stored > in some of the top unused bits of the virtual address (e.g. [54: 49] if > TBID0 is enabled and TnSZ is set to use a 48 bit VA space). A set of > controls are present to enable/disable groups of instructions (which use > certain keys) for compatibility with libraries that do not utilize the > feature. PAuth is used to verify the integrity of return addresses on the > stack with less memory than the stack canary. Any chance of a v3 addressing the couple of small comments from Dave on the third patch, please? Then I can pick up the whole lot for 5.10. Cheers, Will
