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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
	Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, debian-mips@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Tester with IP27/IP30 needed
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 03:16:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080203021647.GA15910@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A4E9DF.5070603@gentoo.org>

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 05:08:31PM -0500, Kumba wrote:

> 
> Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
>> no suprise here. As Ralf already noted cache barrier is a restricted
>> instruction, it will always cause a illegal instruction when used
>> in user space. Nevertheless it looks like all IP28 are affected
>> by the simple exploit. Flo built glibc 2.7 with LLSC war workaround
>> and this avoids triggering the hang.
>
> Ah, didn't know the 'cache' instructions was kernel-mode only.  Explains 
> why it survived then :)
>
> How does one enable the LLSC war workaround in glibc?

By modifying the code ;-)

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-03  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-15 11:24 Tester with IP27/IP30 needed Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-01-15 11:27 ` Florian Lohoff
2008-01-17  0:40   ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-01-17  8:27     ` Florian Lohoff
2008-01-17 10:00       ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-01-17 15:10       ` Ralf Baechle
2008-01-19 19:12         ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-01-17 11:59     ` Ralf Baechle
2008-01-22 15:20     ` Kumba
2008-01-22 15:49       ` Ralf Baechle
2008-01-26  3:12         ` Kumba
2008-01-26 14:39           ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-02-02 22:08             ` Kumba
2008-02-03  2:16               ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2008-02-03  6:27                 ` Florian Lohoff
2008-02-05  7:11                   ` Kumba
2008-02-05 12:22                     ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-02-06  3:25                       ` Kumba
2008-02-06  8:56                         ` Florian Lohoff
2008-02-06 14:22                           ` Ralf Baechle
2008-02-08 17:23                             ` Florian Lohoff
2008-02-08 19:05                               ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-02-08 19:29                               ` Ralf Baechle
2008-02-07  5:30                           ` Kumba
2008-02-05 15:23                     ` Ralf Baechle
2008-01-23  8:47       ` peter fuerst
2008-01-15 13:11 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-01-15 13:53   ` Ralf Baechle
2008-01-15 18:18     ` Ralf Baechle
2008-01-16 16:03       ` Ralf Baechle

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