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| author | Peter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk> | 2016-05-24 23:38:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk> | 2016-05-24 23:38:02 +0000 |
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docs: Document how safestack handles setjmp and exceptions.
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diff --git a/clang/docs/SafeStack.rst b/clang/docs/SafeStack.rst index 21e9b6c621a..f01b75f5cb3 100644 --- a/clang/docs/SafeStack.rst +++ b/clang/docs/SafeStack.rst @@ -178,6 +178,17 @@ Please refer to the `Code-Pointer Integrity <http://dslab.epfl.ch/proj/cpi/>`__ project page for more information about the design of the SafeStack and its related technologies. +setjmp and exception handling +----------------------------- + +The `OSDI'14 paper <http://dslab.epfl.ch/pubs/cpi.pdf>`_ mentions that +on Linux the instrumentation pass finds calls to setjmp or functions that +may throw an exception, and inserts required instrumentation at their call +sites. Specifically, the instrumentation pass saves the shadow stack pointer +on the safe stack before the call site, and restores it either after the +call to setjmp or after an exception has been caught. This is implemented +in the function ``SafeStack::createStackRestorePoints``. + Publications ------------ |
