Arms Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Support Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.13

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 9, 2024 1:17 PM
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For more than one year Arm engineers have been working on Guarded Control Stack "GCS" support for the Linux kernel as a means of protecting against return-oriented programming (ROP) sttacks with modern AArch64 processors. It looks like for Linux 6.13 this Arm GCS support will be ready for upstreaming.

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