diff --git a/criu/include/image.h b/criu/include/image.h
index 9a275565f..a17aae35c 100644
--- a/criu/include/image.h
+++ b/criu/include/image.h
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
  *  - stack
  *  	the memory area is used in application stack so we
  *  	should be careful about guard page here
+ *  - shadow stack
+ *      the memory area is used by shadow stack
  *  - vsyscall
  *  	special memory area injected into the task memory
  *  	space by the kernel itself, represent virtual syscall
@@ -84,6 +86,7 @@
 #define VMA_AREA_VVAR	 (1 << 12)
 #define VMA_AREA_AIORING (1 << 13)
 #define VMA_AREA_MEMFD	 (1 << 14)
+#define VMA_AREA_SHSTK	 (1 << 15)
 
 #define VMA_EXT_PLUGIN	  (1 << 27)
 #define VMA_CLOSE	  (1 << 28)
diff --git a/criu/proc_parse.c b/criu/proc_parse.c
index 2b9405035..55aefac7d 100644
--- a/criu/proc_parse.c
+++ b/criu/proc_parse.c
@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ bool handle_vma_plugin(int *fd, struct stat *stat)
 	return true;
 }
 
-static void __parse_vmflags(char *buf, u32 *flags, u64 *madv, int *io_pf)
+static void __parse_vmflags(char *buf, u32 *flags, u64 *madv, int *io_pf,
+			    int *shstk)
 {
 	char *tok;
 
@@ -162,6 +163,9 @@ static void __parse_vmflags(char *buf, u32 *flags, u64 *madv, int *io_pf)
 		if (_vmflag_match(tok, "io") || _vmflag_match(tok, "pf"))
 			*io_pf = 1;
 
+		if (_vmflag_match(tok, "ss"))
+			*shstk = 1;
+
 		/*
 		 * Anything else is just ignored.
 		 */
@@ -172,14 +176,21 @@ static void __parse_vmflags(char *buf, u32 *flags, u64 *madv, int *io_pf)
 
 void parse_vmflags(char *buf, u32 *flags, u64 *madv, int *io_pf)
 {
-	__parse_vmflags(buf, flags, madv, io_pf);
+	int shstk = 0;
+
+	__parse_vmflags(buf, flags, madv, io_pf, &shstk);
 }
 
 static void parse_vma_vmflags(char *buf, struct vma_area *vma_area)
 {
 	int io_pf = 0;
+	int shstk = 0;
 
-	__parse_vmflags(buf, &vma_area->e->flags, &vma_area->e->madv, &io_pf);
+	__parse_vmflags(buf, &vma_area->e->flags, &vma_area->e->madv, &io_pf,
+			&shstk);
+
+	if (shstk)
+		vma_area->e->status |= VMA_AREA_SHSTK;
 
 	/*
 	 * vmsplice doesn't work for VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP mappings, the
diff --git a/lib/pycriu/images/pb2dict.py b/lib/pycriu/images/pb2dict.py
index d29fdf66c..0d1a24692 100644
--- a/lib/pycriu/images/pb2dict.py
+++ b/lib/pycriu/images/pb2dict.py
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ mmap_status_map = [
     ('VMA_AREA_VVAR', 1 << 12),
     ('VMA_AREA_AIORING', 1 << 13),
     ('VMA_AREA_MEMFD', 1 << 14),
+    ('VMA_AREA_SHSTK', 1 << 15),
     ('VMA_UNSUPP', 1 << 31),
 ]