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Arm's Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Support Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.13
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
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. Over the past year the Guarded Control Stack code has been through thirteen rounds of revisions and review on the Linux kernel mailing list. The GCS patches were queued last week into arm64/linux.git as the staging area for new ARM64 architecture code for the Linux kernel.
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