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From: "Yu, Yu-cheng" <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v28 04/10] x86/cet/ibt: Disable IBT for ia32
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 09:07:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3edaaf51-dbcf-f4fc-de2d-dd72471004f4@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3318ca57-7ac3-8296-f9ae-0ae83d5f95dd@kernel.org>

On 8/9/2021 4:04 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On 7/22/21 1:57 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
>> In a signal, a task's IBT status needs to be saved to the signal frame, and
>> later restored in sigreturn.  For the purpose, previous versions of the
>> series add a new struct to the signal frame.  However, a new signal frame
>> format (or re-using a reserved space) introduces complex compatibility
>> issues.
>>
>> In the discussion (see link below), Andy Lutomirski proposed using a
>> ucontext flag.  The approach is clean and eliminates most compatibility
>> issues.
>>
>> However, a legacy IA32 signal frame does not have ucontext and cannot
>> support a uc flag.  Thus,
>>
>> - Disable IBT for ia32.
>> - In ia32 sigreturn, verify ibt is disabled.
> 
> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> 

Thanks!


  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-10 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-22 20:57 [PATCH v28 00/10] Control-flow Enforcement: Indirect Branch Tracking Yu-cheng Yu
2021-07-22 20:57 ` [PATCH v28 01/10] x86/cet/ibt: Add Kconfig option for " Yu-cheng Yu
2021-07-22 20:57 ` [PATCH v28 02/10] x86/cet/ibt: Add user-mode Indirect Branch Tracking support Yu-cheng Yu
2021-07-22 20:57 ` [PATCH v28 03/10] x86/cet/ibt: Handle signals for Indirect Branch Tracking Yu-cheng Yu
2021-07-22 20:57 ` [PATCH v28 04/10] x86/cet/ibt: Disable IBT for ia32 Yu-cheng Yu
2021-08-09 23:04   ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-08-10 16:07     ` Yu, Yu-cheng [this message]
2021-07-22 20:57 ` [PATCH v28 05/10] x86/cet/ibt: Update ELF header parsing for Indirect Branch Tracking Yu-cheng Yu
2021-07-22 20:57 ` [PATCH v28 06/10] x86/cet/ibt: Update arch_prctl functions " Yu-cheng Yu
2021-07-22 20:57 ` [PATCH v28 07/10] x86/vdso: Insert endbr32/endbr64 to vDSO Yu-cheng Yu
2021-07-22 20:57 ` [PATCH v28 08/10] x86/vdso: Introduce ENDBR macro Yu-cheng Yu
2021-07-22 20:57 ` [PATCH v28 09/10] x86/vdso/32: Add ENDBR to __kernel_vsyscall entry point Yu-cheng Yu
2021-07-22 20:57 ` [PATCH v28 10/10] x86/vdso: Add ENDBR to __vdso_sgx_enter_enclave Yu-cheng Yu

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