Bug 2405557 - Missing BTI usage in kernel: enable CONFIG_ARM64_BTI_KERNEL=y
Summary: Missing BTI usage in kernel: enable CONFIG_ARM64_BTI_KERNEL=y
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 2274882
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 44
Hardware: aarch64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-10-21 22:11 UTC by jvoisin
Modified: 2026-05-06 21:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-05-06 21:44:09 UTC
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Description jvoisin 2025-10-21 22:11:34 UTC
1. Please describe the problem:

Fedora's doesn't build the kernel with Branch Target Identification (https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/pac-bti) annotations and enable enforcement of this for kernel code.


2. What is the Version-Release number of the kernel:

N/A


3. Did it work previously in Fedora? If so, what kernel version did the issue
   *first* appear?  Old kernels are available for download at
   https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8 :

No


4. Can you reproduce this issue? If so, please provide the steps to reproduce
   the issue below:

Rebuild with `CONFIG_ARM64_BTI_KERNEL` and notice that nothing breaks, except when trying to use modules compiled without BTI.


5. Does this problem occur with the latest Rawhide kernel? To install the
   Rawhide kernel, run ``sudo dnf install fedora-repos-rawhide`` followed by
   ``sudo dnf update --enablerepo=rawhide kernel``:

N/A


6. Are you running any modules that not shipped with directly Fedora's kernel?:

N/A


7. Please attach the kernel logs. You can get the complete kernel log
   for a boot with ``journalctl --no-hostname -k > dmesg.txt``. If the
   issue occurred on a previous boot, use the journalctl ``-b`` flag.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Fedora Release Engineering 2026-05-06 14:38:34 UTC
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Comment 2 Jeremy Linton 2026-05-06 21:44:09 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2274882 ***


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