Re: [RFC] Circumventing FineIBT Via Entrypoints

[Jennifer Miller <jmill@asu.edu>]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 12:11:17AM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 15/02/2025 12:07 am, Jennifer Miller wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 11:06:50PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> >> On 13/02/2025 11:24 pm, Jennifer Miller wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 09:24:18PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> >>> Still, I hadn't considered misusing readonly/unmapped pages on the GPR
> >>> register spill that follows. Could we enforce that the stack pointer we get
> >>> be page aligned to prevent this vector? So that if one were to attempt to
> >>> point the stack to readonly or unmapped memory they should be guaranteed to
> >>> double fault?
> >> Hmm.
> >>
> >> Espfix64 does involve #DF recovering from a write to a read-only stack. 
> >> (This broken corner of x86 is also fixed in FRED.   We fixed a *lot* of
> >> thing.)
> > Interesting, I haven't gotten around to reading into how FRED works, it
> > sounds neat.
> 
> Start with
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hWejnyDkjRRAW-JEsRjA5c9CKLOPc6VKJQsuvODlQEI/edit?usp=sharing
> 
> 
> Then
> https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/779982/flexible-return-and-event-delivery-fred-specification.html
> 
> ~Andrew

Thanks, I'll give those a read!

~Jennifer