From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linda Wang <lwang@redhat.com>,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] x86: Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:51:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5060C7E8.2060500@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jJraZJc2nYZUEDeroa9qwy_sN9kvFYAJvdubQ_wky25zw@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/24/2012 01:43 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> How about this...
>
> mem protection : nx smap smep
>
> Maybe the "why" of a cpu feature being missing from the "mem
> protection" line can stay in printk?
>
Come to think about it, since we use setup_set/clear_cpu_cap we aready
don't list the feature in /proc/cpuinfo already if it isn't enabled.
I would therefore suggest that we simply printk a message if the feature
is disabled.
-hpa
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-21 19:43 [PATCH 00/11] x86: Supervisor Mode Access Prevention H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 19:43 ` [PATCH 01/11] x86, cpufeature: Add feature bit for SMAP H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 19:43 ` [PATCH 02/11] x86-32, mm: The WP test should be done on a kernel page H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 19:58 ` [tip:x86/smap] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 19:43 ` [PATCH 03/11] x86, smap: Add CR4 bit for SMAP H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 19:59 ` [tip:x86/smap] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 19:43 ` [PATCH 04/11] x86, alternative: Use .pushsection/.popsection H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 20:00 ` [tip:x86/smap] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 19:43 ` [PATCH 05/11] x86, alternative: Add header guards to <asm/alternative-asm.h> H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 20:01 ` [tip:x86/smap] x86, alternative: Add header guards to <asm/ alternative-asm.h> tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 19:43 ` [PATCH 06/11] x86, smap: Add a header file with macros for STAC/CLAC H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 20:02 ` [tip:x86/smap] x86, smap: Add a header file with macros for STAC/ CLAC tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 19:43 ` [PATCH 07/11] x86, uaccess: Merge prototypes for clear_user/__clear_user H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 20:03 ` [tip:x86/smap] x86, uaccess: Merge prototypes for clear_user/ __clear_user tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 19:43 ` [PATCH 08/11] x86, smap: Add STAC and CLAC instructions to control user space access H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 20:04 ` [tip:x86/smap] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-22 0:16 ` [tip:x86/smap] x86-32, smap: Add STAC/ CLAC instructions to 32-bit kernel entry tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 19:43 ` [PATCH 09/11] x86, smap: Turn on Supervisor Mode Access Prevention H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 20:05 ` [tip:x86/smap] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 19:43 ` [PATCH 10/11] x86, smap: A page fault due to SMAP is an oops H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 20:06 ` [tip:x86/smap] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 19:43 ` [PATCH 11/11] x86, smap: Reduce the SMAP overhead for signal handling H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 20:07 ` [tip:x86/smap] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 19:54 ` [PATCH 00/11] x86: Supervisor Mode Access Prevention Linus Torvalds
2012-09-21 19:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 20:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-09-21 21:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 21:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-21 21:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 22:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-21 22:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-22 0:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-24 23:27 ` [RFC PATCH] x86-32: Start out eflags and cr4 clean H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-25 13:27 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-25 13:48 ` Ian Campbell
2012-09-26 11:29 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-09-27 6:11 ` [tip:x86/smap] " tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-24 3:49 ` Yuhong Bao
2012-11-24 5:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-27 6:11 ` [tip:x86/smap] x86, suspend: On wakeup always initialize cr4 and EFER tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-01 22:04 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, suspend: Correct the restore of CR4, EFER; skip computing EFLAGS.ID tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-02 6:52 ` tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-10 19:59 ` [RFC PATCH] x86-32: Start out eflags and cr4 clean Andres Salomon
2013-01-19 0:40 ` Andres Salomon
2013-01-19 0:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-19 1:05 ` [Techteam] " Mitch Bradley
2013-01-19 2:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-19 7:44 ` Mitch Bradley
2013-01-19 12:34 ` Daniel Drake
2013-01-19 19:15 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86-32: Start out cr0 clean, disable paging before modifying cr3/4 tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-21 22:08 ` [PATCH 00/11] x86: Supervisor Mode Access Prevention Dave Jones
2012-09-21 22:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-22 11:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-09-24 20:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-24 20:43 ` Kees Cook
2012-09-24 20:51 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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