On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> This patch makes the GDT remapped pages read-only to prevent corruption.
> This change is done only on 64-bit.
>
> The native_load_tr_desc function was adapted to correctly handle a
> read-only GDT. The LTR instruction always writes to the GD
This patch makes the GDT remapped pages read-only to prevent corruption.
This change is done only on 64-bit.
The native_load_tr_desc function was adapted to correctly handle a
read-only GDT. The LTR instruction always writes to the GDT TSS entry.
This generates a page fault if the GDT is read-only