On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 06:23:42PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> From: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
>
> By itself, this is useless. It gives us the ability to run some final
> code before exit that cannnot run on the kernel stack. This could
> include a CR3 switch a la KAISER or some kernel stack erasing, for
> example. (Or even weird things like *changing* which kernel stack
> gets used as an ASLR-strengthening mechanism.)
>
> The SYSRET32 path is not covered yet. It could be in the future or
> we could just ignore it and force the slow path if needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpet...@suse.de>
> Cc: Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com>
> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> Link:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d350017000eed20922c3b2711a2d9229dc809256.1511497875.git.l...@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 55
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Nice commenting, future generations will appreciate it!
:-)
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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