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[$] Control-flow integrity in 5.13

Friday May 21, 2021. 04:36 PM , from LWN.net
Among the many changes merged for the 5.13 kernel is support for the LLVM
control-flow integrity (CFI) mechanism. CFI defends against exploits by
ensuring that indirect function calls have not been redirected by an
attacker. Quite a bit of work was needed to make this feature work well
for the kernel, but the result appears to be production-ready and able to
defend Linux systems from a range of attacks.
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