Re: [PATCH v26 23/30] x86/cet/shstk: Handle thread shadow stack

Borislav Petkov
2021-05-11T17:09:48Z

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 03:57:56PM -0700, Yu, Yu-cheng wrote:
> So this struct will be:
>
> struct thread_shstk {
> u64 shstk_base;
> u64 shstk_size;
> u64 locked:1;
> u64 ibt:1;
> };
>
> Ok?

Pretty much.

You can even remove the "shstk_" from the members and when you call the
pointer "shstk", accessing the members will read

shstk->base
shstk->size
...

and all is organic and readable :)

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.