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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:12:26 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] x86/cet: Add arch_prctl functions for shadow stack
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To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, "H. J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "Shanbhogue, Vedvyas" <vedvyas.shanbhogue@intel.com>, "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, mike.kravetz@oracle.com, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:20 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
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>> On Jun 19, 2018, at 10:07 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> Does it provide anything beyond what PR_DUMPABLE does?
>
> What do you mean?

I was just going by the name of it. I wasn't sure what "ptrace CET
lock" meant, so I was trying to understand if it was another "you
can't ptrace me" toggle, and if so, wouldn't it be redundant with
PR_SET_DUMPABLE = 0, etc.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security