On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 4:45 AM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This series introduces CET - Shadow stack > > At the high level, shadow stack is: > > Allocated from a task's address space with vm_flags VM_SHSTK; > Its PTEs must be read-only and dirty; > Fixed sized, but the default size can be changed by sys admin. > > For a forked child, the shadow stack is duplicated when the next > shadow stack access takes place. > > For a pthread child, a new shadow stack is allocated. > > The signal handler uses the same shadow stack as the main program. > > Yu-cheng Yu (10): > x86/cet: User-mode shadow stack support > x86/cet: Introduce WRUSS instruction > x86/cet: Signal handling for shadow stack > x86/cet: Handle thread shadow stack > x86/cet: ELF header parsing of Control Flow Enforcement > x86/cet: Add arch_prctl functions for shadow stack > mm: Prevent mprotect from changing shadow stack > mm: Prevent mremap of shadow stack > mm: Prevent madvise from changing shadow stack > mm: Prevent munmap and remap_file_pages of shadow stack Shouldn't patches like these be CC'ed to linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?