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KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space

KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space

Posted Nov 15, 2017 15:55 UTC (Wed) by matthias (subscriber, #94967)
In reply to: KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space by epa
Parent article: KAISER: hiding the kernel from user space

This will not work as todays CPUs provide the possibility to trigger a pagefault without involving the kernel (e.g. TSX instructions). These instructions simply fail if the memory is not mapped or not accessible unlike usual memory accesses that would involve the kernels pagefault handler.

I did also not know this before, but several of these attacks are described in the linked paper.


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