On 2/1/2021 2:53 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:

On 1/27/21 1:25 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:

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To deliver a signal, create a shadow stack restore token and put a restore
token and the signal restorer address on the shadow stack.  For sigreturn,
verify the token and restore the shadow stack pointer.

Introduce WRUSS, which is a kernel-mode instruction but writes directly to
user shadow stack.  It is used to construct the user signal stack as
described above.

Introduce a signal context extension struct 'sc_ext', which is used to save
shadow stack restore token address and WAIT_ENDBR status.  WAIT_ENDBR will
be introduced later in the Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) series, but add
that into sc_ext now to keep the struct stable in case the IBT series is
applied later.

This changelog needs some work.  It's got a lot of "what" and not enough
"why".

Why do we need a token?
What function does it serve?
What does it protect against?
Why do we need a signal context extension?

I will update it.

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Yu-cheng