Re: F45 Change Proposal: Enable Shadow Stack by Default on x86_64 (system-wide)

CS Sushi Man via devel <[email protected]>
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My final opinion:

  I think everything will be fine if its enabled. I accidentally
skimmed over the portion where it says that the feature will be
disabled if prerequisites are not met (oops), so just ignore
everything I've said about *not* enabling it by default.


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On Wednesday, July 1st, 2026 at 12:11, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce <[email protected]> wrote:


> == Summary ==
> This change enables Shadow Stack protection on applications and
> libraries built with gcc (C, C++), clang (C, C++), and rustc (Rust) by
> default on x86_64 machines that support it on Fedora Linux 45. The
> dynamic linker or static startup routines will activate Shadow Stack
> for any process whose binary and shared library dependencies are all
> built with Shadow Stack support (marked with ELF metadata), protecting
> processes by default whenever possible.
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