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List:       linux-api
Subject:    Re: [PATCH v5 39/39] x86/shstk: Add ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS
From:       Kees Cook <keescook () chromium ! org>
Date:       2023-01-20 1:08:29
Message-ID: 202301191708.9E60F837 () keescook
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 01:23:17PM -0800, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
> CRIU and GDB need to get the current shadow stack and WRSS enablement
> status. This information is already available via /proc/pid/status, but
> this is inconvenient for CRIU because it involves parsing the text output
> in an area of the code where this is difficult. Provide a status
> arch_prctl(), ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS for retrieving the status. Have arg2 be a
> userspace address, and make the new arch_prctl simply copy the features
> out to userspace.
> 
> Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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Kees Cook
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