On 07/10/2018 03:26 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote: > + /* > + * Verify X86_PF_SHSTK is within a shadow stack VMA. > + * It is always an error if there is a shadow stack > + * fault outside a shadow stack VMA. > + */ > + if (error_code & X86_PF_SHSTK) { > + if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHSTK)) > + return 1; > + return 0; > + } It turns out that a X86_PF_SHSTK just means that the processor faulted while doing access to something it thinks should be a shadow-stack virtual address. But, we *can* have faults on shadow stack accesses for non-shadow-stack reasons. I think you need to remove the 'return 0' and let it fall through to the other access checks that we might be failing. If it's a shadow stack access, it has to be a shadow stack VMA. But, a shadow-stack access fault to a shadow stack VMA isn't _necessarily_ OK.