Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/953794/

User-space shadow stacks are a relatively new feature in Linux; support was
only added for 6.6, and is limited to the x86
architecture. As support for other architectures (including arm64 and RISC-V) approaches readiness,
though, more thought is going into the API for this feature. As a recent
discussion on the integration of shadow stacks with the clone3() system call shows, there are
still some details to be worked out.