Re: [PATCH 00/10] Control Flow Enforcement - Part (3)

[Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 04:46 +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 4:45 AM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > This series introduces CET - Shadow stack
> > 
> > At the high level, shadow stack is:
> > 
> >         Allocated from a task's address space with vm_flags
> > VM_SHSTK;
> >         Its PTEs must be read-only and dirty;
> >         Fixed sized, but the default size can be changed by sys
> > admin.
> > 
> > For a forked child, the shadow stack is duplicated when the next
> > shadow stack access takes place.
> > 
> > For a pthread child, a new shadow stack is allocated.
> > 
> > The signal handler uses the same shadow stack as the main program.
> > 
> > Yu-cheng Yu (10):
> >   x86/cet: User-mode shadow stack support
> >   x86/cet: Introduce WRUSS instruction
> >   x86/cet: Signal handling for shadow stack
> >   x86/cet: Handle thread shadow stack
> >   x86/cet: ELF header parsing of Control Flow Enforcement
> >   x86/cet: Add arch_prctl functions for shadow stack
> >   mm: Prevent mprotect from changing shadow stack
> >   mm: Prevent mremap of shadow stack
> >   mm: Prevent madvise from changing shadow stack
> >   mm: Prevent munmap and remap_file_pages of shadow stack
> Shouldn't patches like these be CC'ed to linux-api@vger.kernel.org?

Yes, I will do that.

Thanks,
Yu-cheng