kernel-hardening - Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core)

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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 09:40:08 -0700
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, 
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>, 
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	"linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, 
	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, 
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>, 
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, 
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core)

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:41:11AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> 3. Free stacks immediately and cache them (really easy).
>
> Random note: task_current_syscall() (via /proc/$pid/syscall) will probably need additional
> locking when the stack is freed before the task.

Thanks.  I'm testing a patch now.

-- 
Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC

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