Intel Shadow Stack Finally Merged For Linux 6.6

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Shadow Stack Finally Merged For Linux 6.6

The Intel Shadow Stack support that is part of their Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) has finally been merged for the Linux 6.6 kernel after it was previously rejected by Linus Torvalds...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Shadow-Stack-Linux-6.6

[JEBjames]

Michael

Typo in this article:

"decided to merge the Shadow Stack (shstdk) code" should be "shstk"

Typo in previous article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-...ack-Issue-6.4:

Link URL text at top has "shaodw" should be "shadow"

[ayumu]

Windows's had this for a while, finally Linux gets this.

[kobblestown]

It seems AMD also has a similar feature for some of it's (>=Zen3?) CPUs. Does it have Linux support?