• [$] Improving control-flow integrity for Linux on RISC-V

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Thu Jun 13 16:30:06 2024
    [$] Improving control-flow integrity for Linux on RISC-V

    Date:
    Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:25:50 +0000

    Description:
    Redirecting execution flow is a common malware
    technique that can be used to compromise operating systems. To protect from such attacks,
    the chip makers of leading architectures like x86 and arm64 have implemented control-flow-integrity (CFI) extensions , though they need system
    software support to function. At the Linux
    Security Summit North America , RISC-V kernel developer Deepak Gupta
    described the CFI
    protections for that architecture and invited community input on the
    kernel support for them.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/977720/


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