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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2014
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Can Acar, San Diego, CA (US);
Arvind Krishnaswamy, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Turner, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01); G06F 21/554 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for enforcing flow control of a software program in a processor are provided. An example method according to these techniques includes analyzing program code of the software program to identify a code pointer in the program code, generating an authentication tag based on the code pointer, and modifying the code pointer in the program code with the authentication tag to generate a tagged code pointer.