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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/Makefile | 3 |
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile index 85e4149cc5d5..921c8ee8552b 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile @@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ branch-prot-flags-y += $(call cc-option,-mbranch-protection=none) ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH),y) branch-prot-flags-$(CONFIG_CC_HAS_SIGN_RETURN_ADDRESS) := -msign-return-address=all +# We enable additional protection for leaf functions as there is some +# narrow potential for ROP protection benefits and no substantial +# performance impact has been observed. branch-prot-flags-$(CONFIG_CC_HAS_BRANCH_PROT_PAC_RET) := -mbranch-protection=pac-ret+leaf # -march=armv8.3-a enables the non-nops instructions for PAC, to avoid the # compiler to generate them and consequently to break the single image contract |