From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"Ren, Qiaowei" <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86, mpx: hook #BR exception handler to allocate bound tables
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:51:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52D96D85.5060708@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140117121457.0847cde3@gandalf.local.home>
On 01/17/2014 09:14 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>
>>> All I'm trying to say is, it might not be such a good idea to sleep in a
>>> fault handler...
>>
>> A fault handler from user space is really nothing other than a different
>> kind of system call. It is nothing magic about it.
>
> Exactly. I was saying that #BR should be just like #PF, as it can
> detect bugs in the kernel too. The first thing the handler should do is
> check to see if the fault occurred in userspace or kernel space. If it
> is userspace, then there's no restrictions. If it is kernel space then
> we should do the bare minimum to report the bug and then kill whatever
> task happened to do it.
>
Yes. We call this "oopsing" ;)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-17 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-12 9:19 [PATCH 1/5] x86, mpx: add documentation on Intel MPX Qiaowei Ren
2014-01-12 9:20 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86, mpx: hook #BR exception handler to allocate bound tables Qiaowei Ren
2014-01-12 9:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-13 3:17 ` Ren Qiaowei
2014-01-13 10:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 14:47 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-01-17 16:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 16:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-17 17:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-01-17 17:51 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-01-19 12:50 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-01-17 17:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-01-17 16:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-17 16:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 16:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-17 16:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 16:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-17 17:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 17:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-17 18:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 18:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-12 9:20 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86, mpx: add prctl commands PR_MPX_INIT, PR_MPX_RELEASE Qiaowei Ren
2014-01-12 9:20 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86, mpx: add MPX related opcodes to the x86 opcode map Qiaowei Ren
2014-01-17 19:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-17 19:22 ` [tip:x86/mpx] x86, mpx: Add " tip-bot for Qiaowei Ren
2014-01-12 9:20 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86, mpx: extend siginfo structure to include bound violation information Qiaowei Ren
2014-01-12 9:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-12 16:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-12 17:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-12 17:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-13 3:09 ` Ren Qiaowei
2014-01-13 8:22 ` Ren Qiaowei
2014-01-13 10:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 14:55 ` Ren, Qiaowei
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