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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:19:49 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
        Andy Lutomirski
 <luto@...capital.net>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski
 <luto@...nel.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel
 Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arch@...r.kernel.org"
 <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Nadav Amit
 <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>, Josh Poimboeuf
 <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>,
        Heiko Carstens
 <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks
 with guard pages (x86, core)

On Tue, 2016-06-21 at 11:12 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Andy Lutomirski
> <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> > FWIW, it may be a while before this can be enabled in distro
> > kernels.
> > There are some code paths (*cough* crypto users *cough*) that think
> > that calling sg_init_one with a stack address is a reasonable thing
> > to
> > do, and it doesn't work with a vmalloced stack.  grsecurity works
> ... O_o ...
> 
> Why does it not work on a vmalloced stack??

Because virt_to_page() does not work on vmalloced
memory.

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