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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2020
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Tong Chen, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Alper Buyuktosunoglu, White Plains, NY (US);
Richard H. Boivie, Monroe, CT (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 12/0802 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0802 (2013.01); G06F 9/3001 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1021 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, system and apparatus for protecting against out-of-bounds references, including storing an address of a buffer in a general register and storing bounds information (BI) for the buffer in a bounds information register, and when a content of the general register is used as an address in a load or store operation, using a content of the bounds information register to determine if the load or store is out of bounds.