Thread (71 messages) 71 messages, 11 authors, 2020-07-24

Re: [PATCH v10 01/26] Documentation/x86: Add CET description

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2020-05-22 16:53:05
Also in: linux-arch, linux-doc, linux-mm, lkml

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 03:09:22PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
Sadly, the same is not true for kernel shadow stacks.

SSP is 0 after SYSCALL, SYSENTER and CLRSSBSY, and you've got to be
careful to re-establish the shadow stack before a CALL, interrupt or
exception tries pushing a word onto the shadow stack at 0xfffffffffffffff8.
Oh man, I can only imagine the joy that brings to #NM and friends :-(
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