Re: Constant Stack Canaries

From	BGB <cr88192@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.arch
Subject	Re: Constant Stack Canaries
Date	2025-04-03 12:22 -0500
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On 4/3/2025 9:09 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> BGB [2025-04-01 23:19:11] wrote:
>> But, yeah, inter-process function pointers aren't really a thing, and should
>> not be a thing.
> 
> AFAIK, this point was brought in the context of a shared address space
> (I assumed it was some kind of SASOS situation, but the same thing
> happens with per-thread data inside a POSIX-style process).
> Function pointers are perfectly normal and common in data (even tho they
> may often be implicit, e.g. within the method table of objects), and the
> whole point of sharing an address space is to be able to exchange data.
> 

Or, to allow for NOMMU operation, or reduce costs by not having context 
switches result in as large of numbers of TLB misses.

Also makes the kernel simpler as it doesn't need to deal with each 
process having its own address space.

Some data sharing is used for IPC, but directly sharing function 
pointers between processes, or local memory (stack, malloc, etc), is not 
allowed.

Though, things may change later, there is a plan to more to separate 
global/local address ranges. Likely things like code will remain in the 
shared range, and program data will be in the local range.

> 
>          Stefan

Thread

Constant Stack Canaries Robert Finch <robfi680@gmail.com> - 2025-03-30 08:16 -0400
  Re: Constant Stack Canaries BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-03-30 12:47 -0500
    Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-03-30 20:14 +0000
      Re: Constant Stack Canaries Robert Finch <robfi680@gmail.com> - 2025-03-30 21:26 -0400
      Re: Constant Stack Canaries BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-03-31 01:34 -0500
      Re: Constant Stack Canaries Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2025-03-31 09:04 -0700
        Re: Constant Stack Canaries BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-03-31 12:17 -0500
          Re: Constant Stack Canaries Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2025-03-31 10:57 -0700
          Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-03-31 18:07 +0000
            Re: Constant Stack Canaries BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-03-31 13:56 -0500
              Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-03-31 20:52 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries Robert Finch <robfi680@gmail.com> - 2025-04-01 00:58 -0400
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-01 18:51 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries Robert Finch <robfi680@gmail.com> - 2025-04-01 18:06 -0400
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-01 23:24 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries Robert Finch <robfi680@gmail.com> - 2025-04-01 20:07 -0400
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-02 01:47 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-04 21:07 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-04-01 16:21 -0500
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries Robert Finch <robfi680@gmail.com> - 2025-04-01 18:19 -0400
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-04-01 23:04 -0500
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-04-01 14:34 -0500
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-01 23:21 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2025-04-01 22:55 -0400
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-04-01 23:19 -0500
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2025-04-03 10:09 -0400
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-04-03 12:22 -0500
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries Robert Finch <robfi680@gmail.com> - 2025-04-03 23:49 -0400
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-04-04 12:41 -0500
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-04 21:13 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries Robert Finch <robfi680@gmail.com> - 2025-04-04 23:45 -0400
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-05 16:37 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-05 18:31 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries Robert Finch <robfi680@gmail.com> - 2025-04-05 17:57 -0400
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-05 23:11 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-06 14:21 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries Robert Finch <robfi680@gmail.com> - 2025-04-06 15:01 -0400
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-07 14:04 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-05 23:06 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-06 14:32 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-07 00:51 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-07 14:09 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-09 00:23 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-15 00:43 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-15 14:02 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-15 20:46 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-16 14:07 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-16 21:13 +0000
                Virtualization layers (was: Constant Stack Canaries) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2025-04-16 17:48 -0400
                Re: Virtualization layers mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-16 22:12 +0000
                Re: Virtualization layers (was: Constant Stack Canaries) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-17 00:49 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2025-04-16 15:26 -0700
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-17 00:57 +0000
                Re: virtualization, Constant Stack Canaries John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-04-17 01:04 +0000
                Re: virtualization, Constant Stack Canaries Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2025-04-16 21:07 -0400
                Re: virtualization, Constant Stack Canaries Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2025-04-16 23:30 -0700
                Re: virtualization, Constant Stack Canaries scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-17 13:32 +0000
                Re: virtualization, Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-17 18:22 +0000
                Re: virtualization, Constant Stack Canaries scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-17 20:10 +0000
                Re: virtualization, Constant Stack Canaries mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) - 2025-04-17 21:45 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-17 00:47 +0000
                Re: Constant Stack Canaries BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-04-02 00:43 -0500

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