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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-22 22:39:04)
x86 Kernel Shadow Stacks Being Worked On For Linux As Powerful Control Flow Protection

Linux user-space for several years had shadow stack support for hardware-enforced control-flow enforcement in defending against return oriented programming (ROP) attacks. Intel Tigerlake and newer CPUs or AMD Zen 3 and newer have the necessary hardware shadow stacks support. Shadow stacks have been effective for helping user-space software fend ROP attacks while now there is new work …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Shadow-Stacks
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