V4 [PATCH 04/12] x86/CET: Extend arch_prctl syscall for CET control

[Zack Weinberg]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 7:10 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/13/2018 06:51 AM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>>
>> [    8.864561] process: tty: Unsupported common prctl 3001
>> [    8.865664] expr: Unsupported prctl 3001
>> [..]
>>
>> Which is, maybe fine, though I'm not entirely sure since I don't
>> really see ARCH_CET being supported by any arch (neither in linux-next
>> nor in Linus' tree), so maybe as of now those syscalls are unneeded.

Has any hardware with CET support shipped to the general public yet?

Could we perhaps use cpuid or similar to detect hardware support, and
not bother probing for kernel support if it's not there?

zw