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The kernel IBT defense strongly mitigates the common "first step" of ROP attacks, by eliminating arbitrary stack pivots (that appear either at the end of a function or in immediate values), which cannot be reached if indirect calls must be to marked function entry addresses. IBT is also required to be enabled to gain the FineIBT feature when built with Kernel Control Flow Integrity. Additionally, given that this feature is runtime enabled via CPU ID, it clearly should be built in by default; it will only be enabled if the CPU supports it. The build takes 2 seconds longer, which seems a small price to pay for gaining this coverage by default. Suggested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221101172503.gonna.094-kees@kernel.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.