On 1/27/21 1:25 PM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote: > To deliver a signal, create a shadow stack restore token and put a restore > token and the signal restorer address on the shadow stack. For sigreturn, > verify the token and restore the shadow stack pointer. > > Introduce WRUSS, which is a kernel-mode instruction but writes directly to > user shadow stack. It is used to construct the user signal stack as > described above. > > Introduce a signal context extension struct 'sc_ext', which is used to save > shadow stack restore token address and WAIT_ENDBR status. WAIT_ENDBR will > be introduced later in the Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) series, but add > that into sc_ext now to keep the struct stable in case the IBT series is > applied later.
This changelog needs some work. It's got a lot of "what" and not enough "why". Why do we need a token? What function does it serve? What does it protect against? Why do we need a signal context extension?
