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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2015
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Quan Chen, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ahmed Azab, San Jose, CA (US);
Peng Ning, Cupertino, CA (US);
Guruprasad Ganesh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/1408 (2013.01); G06F 12/1466 (2013.01); G06F 12/1483 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 21/6281 (2013.01); G06F 21/64 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1052 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for protecting kernel data integrity in an electronic device are provided. The method includes mapping a specified type of data to a read-only memory area, detecting a write attempt to the specified type of data, determining whether a process attempting to write to the specified type of data is permitted according to a specified condition, and allowing the write attempt if the process attempting to write to the specified type of data satisfies the specified condition.