Re: [PATCH v7 32/41] x86/shstk: Handle signals for shadow stack

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Mar 09 2023 - 18:35:12 EST


On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 05:16:42PM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-03-09 at 18:02 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 02:29:48PM -0800, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
> > > From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > When a signal is handled normally the context is pushed to the
> > > stack
> >
> > s/normally //
>
> It is trying to say "When a signal is handled without shadow stack, the
> context is pushed to the stack"

Yeah, I see that. But "normally" is implicit in the "normal" case,
without shadow stack.

So you don't really need to say "normally". :-)

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