Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Authenticated control stacks
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Application No.: US14612067Application Date: 2015-02-02
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Publication No.: US09672351B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: Arvind Krishnaswamy , Can Acar , Robert Turner
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agent Won Tae C. Kim
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00 ; H04L9/32 ; G06F21/52 ; G06F21/44 ; G06F21/51 ; G06F12/0875 ; G06F15/78 ; G06F11/10

Abstract:
A method of producing a control stack includes: writing a plurality of control information entries into a control stack buffer that is internal to a processor in response to one or more function calls; and in response to the control stack buffer being full and receiving a further function call, writing: the plurality of control information entries to an external memory that is external to the processor; and a further control information entry, corresponding to the further function call, to the control stack buffer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160224784A1 AUTHENTICATED CONTROL STACKS Public/Granted day:2016-08-04
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