RE: [PATCH 00/12] Add CET shadow stack support

["Schimpe, Christina" <christina.schimpe@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2025 4:01 PM
> To: Schimpe, Christina <christina.schimpe@intel.com>; gdb-
> patches@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Add CET shadow stack support
> 
> On 12/20/24 5:04 PM, Schimpe, Christina wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > this is a series to add amd64 shadow stack support to GDB on linux.
> > Shadow stack is part of the Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET)
> > by Intel.
> >
> > Intel's CET  provides the two capabilities to defend against
> > ROP/COP/JOP style control-flow subversion attacks: shadow stack and
> > indirect branch tracking (IBT).
> >
> > While there is linux kernel support for CET shadow stack in userspace,
> > there is no linux kernel support available for userspace IBT, yet.
> > This series therefore focuses on CET shadow stack only.
> >
> > I am looking forward to your feedback!
> 
> Hi Christina, thanks for the incredible work in this series!
> 
> I looked over all the patches, and sent all my comments inlined, the other patches
> look alright to me. I don't know if I understand enough of the code to give a
> review tag, and I don't have a machine with shadow stack support to test the
> series, so I hope this series gets some attention from global maintainers soon, I'd
> love to see this work merged!

Hi Guinivere, 

Thanks a lot for looking at this ! 

My plan is to wait until I receive  bit more feedback for this series and until patch #1 is merged, 
which I posted now separately.

Best Regards,
Christina
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