Hi Will, On 9/11/20 7:15 PM, Will Deacon wrote: > 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. > Boyan is on it. Thank you. > Cheers, > > Will > -- Regards, Vincenzo
