Supervisor Mode Access Prevention

Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a feature of some CPU implementations such as the Intel Broadwell microarchitecture that allows supervisor mode programs to optionally set user-space memory mappings so that access to those mappings from supervisor mode will cause a trap. This makes it harder for malicious programs to "trick" the kernel into using instructions or data from a user-space program.[1][2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Supervisor mode access prevention". lwn.net.
  2. ↑ "Intel® Xeon® Processor D Product Family Technical Overview". Intel.
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