rust/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm
Ramon de C Valle 65698ae9f3 Add LLVM KCFI support to the Rust compiler
This commit adds LLVM Kernel Control Flow Integrity (KCFI) support to
the Rust compiler. It initially provides forward-edge control flow
protection for operating systems kernels for Rust-compiled code only by
aggregating function pointers in groups identified by their return and
parameter types. (See llvm/llvm-project@cff5bef.)

Forward-edge control flow protection for C or C++ and Rust -compiled
code "mixed binaries" (i.e., for when C or C++ and Rust -compiled code
share the same virtual address space) will be provided in later work as
part of this project by identifying C char and integer type uses at the
time types are encoded (see Type metadata in the design document in the
tracking issue #89653).

LLVM KCFI can be enabled with -Zsanitizer=kcfi.

Co-authored-by: bjorn3 <17426603+bjorn3@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-12-08 17:24:39 -08:00
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src Add LLVM KCFI support to the Rust compiler 2022-12-08 17:24:39 -08:00
Cargo.toml Auto merge of #99324 - reez12g:issue-99144, r=jyn514 2022-10-06 03:01:57 +00:00
README.md mv compiler to compiler/ 2020-08-30 18:45:07 +03:00

The codegen crate contains the code to convert from MIR into LLVM IR, and then from LLVM IR into machine code. In general it contains code that runs towards the end of the compilation process.

For more information about how codegen works, see the rustc dev guide.