Intel Tidies Up CET While Waiting For It To Land In The Linux Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Tidies Up CET While Waiting For It To Land In The Linux Kernel

Intel's SGX enclaves support patches for the Linux kernel have been through 40+ rounds of review at this point over the past many months as they try to get this security feature into the mainline Linux kernel. But SGX isn't the only Intel security feature that's been having a long process for mainlining: Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) is in a similar boat...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-CET-v15-Linux-Patches

[uid313]

Is only x86 vulnerable to ROP/JOP/COP? Or is it on ARMv8 and RISC-V too?

[andreano]

CET stands for Central European Time. That acronym is taken, Intel.