Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v2 25/30] fork: Define usercopy region in thread_stack slab caches

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On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 14:35 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> From: David Windsor <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In support of usercopy hardening, this patch defines a region in the
> thread_stack slab caches in which userspace copy operations are
> allowed.
> Since the entire thread_stack needs to be available to userspace, the
> entire slab contents are whitelisted. Note that the slab-based thread
> stack is only present on systems with THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE and
> !CONFIG_VMAP_STACK.
> 

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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