Opened 9 years ago

Last modified 8 years ago

#624 new enhancement

Add support for Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP)

Reported by: Martin Decky Owned by: Jakub Jermář
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: helenos/kernel/amd64 Version: mainline
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Description

Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a feature of the Haswell microarchitecture (and later) that prevents the kernel from accessing user space memory. This basically limits the attack surface on the kernel because the kernel can decide to access the user space memory only in certain, tightly controlled situations (e.g. in copy_from_uspace(), copy_to_uspace(), etc.).

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Jakub Jermář, 8 years ago

Milestone: 0.6.1
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