PaX Team (@paxteam): "FYI, UDEREF on amd64 already has similar infrastructure for this kind of page table management (for a different purpose)." | nitter

Daniel Gruss @lavados

4 May 2017

[RFC, PATCH] x86_64: KAISER - do not map kernel in user mode lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/4/220 @mlqxyz @misc0110 @BloodyTangerine #ESSoS17 #ruhrsec

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PaX Team @paxteam

4 May 2017

Replying to @lavados @mlqxyz @misc0110 @BloodyTangerine

FYI, UDEREF on amd64 already has similar infrastructure for this kind of page table management (for a different purpose).

May 4, 2017 · 7:38 PM UTC

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Daniel Gruss @lavados

8 May 2017

Replying to @paxteam @mlqxyz @misc0110 @BloodyTangerine

we were not familiar with this. there are some similarities. we think that this would also work against the side channel.