Re: [PATCH 00/10] Control Flow Enforcement - Part (3)

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 8:06 AM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2018-06-12 at 20:56 +1000, Balbir Singh wrote:
> >
> > On 08/06/18 00:37, Yu-cheng Yu 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.
> > >
> >
> > Even with sigaltstack()?
> >
> >
> > Balbir Singh.
>
> Yes.
>

I think we're going to need some provision to add an alternate signal
stack to handle the case where the shadow stack overflows.