[PATCH v4 0/5] ARM: support THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Mon Sep 13 08:40:18 PDT 2021


On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 12:39:56PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Placing thread_info in the kernel stack leaves it vulnerable to stack
> overflow attacks. This short series addresses that by using the existing
> THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK infrastructure.
> 
> This v4 is a follow-up to Keith's v3 [0], which did not address all
> concerns I raised in response to v2. After collaborating with Keith
> off-list, we decided that I should go ahead and post our joint v4.

Great! Thanks for working through this. :)

-- 
Kees Cook



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