TECHNIQUES TO PROVIDE HARDWARE ENFORCED PROTECTION ENVIRONMENT FOR A SYSTEM MANAGEMENT MODE

    公开(公告)号:US20190042780A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-07

    申请号:US15941992

    申请日:2018-03-30

    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques to detect an access request to access a computing resource while in a system management mode (SMM), determine a bit of a lock register is set to enable access to a bitmap associated with the computing resource, the bitmap to indicate an access policy for the computing resource, and determine whether the access request violate the access policy set in the bitmap. Embodiments may also include performing the access request if the access request does not violate the access policy, and causing a fault if the access request does violate the access policy.

    TECHNIQUES TO PROVIDE A SECURE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT MODE

    公开(公告)号:US20170286318A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-05

    申请号:US15089235

    申请日:2016-04-01

    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for allocating a portion of the memory as system management random access memory (SMRAM) including a system management interrupt (SMI) handler for a system management mode (SMM), the SMI handler to handle SMIs for the SMM, generating a page table for the SMM, the page table comprising one or more mapped pages to map virtual addresses to physical addresses for the SMM, and setting one or more page table attributes for the page table to prevent a malicious code attack on the SMM.

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