Re: [RFC PATCH v9 18/27] x86/cet/shstk: Introduce WRUSS instruction

On Tue, 2020-02-25 at 13:10 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:

On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 10:19:26AM -0800, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:

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WRUSS is a new kernel-mode instruction but writes directly to user Shadow
Stack (SHSTK) memory.  This is used to construct a return address on SHSTK
for the signal handler.

This instruction can fault if the user SHSTK is not valid SHSTK memory.
In that case, the kernel does a fixup.

Since these functions aren't used in this patch, should this get merged
with patch 19?

Yes, I can do that.

Yu-cheng