Re: [PATCH v7 00/26] x86: Enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention

Neri, Ricardo
2017-05-27T03:49:49Z

Hi again Ingo, Thomas,
On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 11:42 -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> Hi Ingo, Thomas,
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> On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 11:16 -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> > This is v7 of this series. The six previous submissions can be found
> > here [1], here [2], here[3], here[4], here[5] and here[6]. This
> > version
> > addresses the comments received in v6 plus improvements of the
> > handling
> > of exceptions unrelated to UMIP as well as corner cases in
> > virtual-8086
> > mode. Please see details in the change log.
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> Since there have been no more comments in the version and if this series
> look good to you, could this be considered to be merged into the tip
> tree?
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> The only remaining item is a cleanup patch that Borislav Petkov
> suggested [1]. I could work on it incrementally on top of this series.

More items have accumulated from the latest review from Borislav Petkov.
These items are preparatory changes and are mostly minimal and would
impact functionality. There have been no comments on other parts of the
implementation. If I spin a v8 of the series, would it be considered
sufficiently mature to be included in v4.13?

Thanks and BR,
Ricardo

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> Thanks and BR,
> Ricardo
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> [1]. https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/4/244
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