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Message-ID: <20200422180040.GC3121@willie-the-truck>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:00:40 +0100
From: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 01/12] add support for Clang's Shadow Call Stack (SCS)

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:54:45AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 07:14:42PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > +void scs_release(struct task_struct *tsk)
> > +{
> > +	void *s;
> > +
> > +	s = __scs_base(tsk);
> > +	if (!s)
> > +		return;
> > +
> > +	WARN_ON(scs_corrupted(tsk));
> > +
> 
> I'd like to have task_set_scs(tsk, NULL) retained here, to avoid need to
> depend on the released task memory getting scrubbed at a later time.

Hmm, doesn't it get zeroed almost immediately by kmem_cache_free() if
INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON is set? That seems much better than special-casing
SCS, as there's a tonne of other useful stuff kicking around in the
task_struct and treating this specially feels odd to me.

Will

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