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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Erik Bosman <erik@minemu.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: SROP mitigation: implement signal canaries
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 18:03:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140516160301.GH1873@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140515223222.GA9727@pizzadoos.com>

> Hrmz.. FP state is aligned on a 64 byte boundary, the signal frame (separately)
> on a 16 byte-sizeof(long) boundary.  But it looks like that for 32 and 64 bit
> rt_sigreturn this means no padding :-/

There may be some unused bytes in the existing structures, perhaps not
continuous.

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-16 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-15 21:10 [PATCH 2/4] x86: SROP mitigation: implement signal canaries Erik Bosman
2014-05-15 21:31 ` Andi Kleen
2014-05-15 22:32   ` Erik Bosman
2014-05-16 16:03     ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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