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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 RFC Zisslpcfi 15/20] sslp prctl: arch-agnostic prctl for shadow stack and landing pad instr
I am really sorry to have missed this and being late.
I saw your GCS patches. Thanks for picking this up.

On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 1:22 PM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 08:53:44PM -0800, Deepak Gupta wrote:
>
> > +int __weak arch_get_shadow_stack_status(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long __user *status)
> > +{
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +}
>
> Having looked at this further is there any great reason why the status
> is passed as a pointer? It seems needless effort.

I was trying to be cleaner here to not overload returned status with a pointer.
You could say that any negative value is an error. I don't have any
favorites here.

-Deepak

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