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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/10] Control Flow Enforcement - Part (3)
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On Tue, 2018-06-12 at 08:03 -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-06-12 at 20:56 +1000, Balbir Singh wrote:
> >
> > On 08/06/18 00:37, Yu-cheng Yu 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.
> > >
> >
> > Even with sigaltstack()?
> >
> Yes.

I am not convinced that it would work, as we switch stacks, oveflow might
be an issue. I also forgot to bring up setcontext(2), I presume those
will get new shadow stacks

Balbir Singh.

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