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From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Control Flow Enforcement - Part (3)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 07:56:57 -0700
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On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 22:26 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:41 AM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > This series introduces CET - Shadow stack
> I think you should add some mitigation against sigreturn-oriented
> programming.  How about creating some special token on the shadow
> stack that indicates the presence of a signal frame at a particular
> address when delivering a signal and verifying and popping that token
> in sigreturn?  The token could be literally the address of the signal
> frame, and you could make this unambiguous by failing sigreturn if
> CET
> is on and the signal frame is in executable memory.
> 
> IOW, it would be a shame if sigreturn() itself became a convenient
> CET-bypassing gadget.
> 
> --Andy

I will look into that.

Thanks,
Yu-cheng