From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 20/26] x86/cpufeature: Add User-Mode Instruction Prevention definitions Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 20:24:22 +0200 Message-ID: <20170607182422.7amuhyleuzn6rjln@pd.tnic> References: <20170505181724.55000-1-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> <20170505181724.55000-21-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170505181724.55000-21-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: Ricardo Neri Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , Brian Gerst , Chris Metcalf , Dave Hansen , Paolo Bonzini , Masami Hiramatsu , Huang Rui , Jiri Slaby , Jonathan Corbet , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Paul Gortmaker , Vlastimil Babka , Chen Yucong , Alexandre Julliard , Stas Sergeev , Fenghua Yu On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 11:17:18AM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote: > User-Mode Instruction Prevention is a security feature present in new > Intel processors that, when set, prevents the execution of a subset of > instructions if such instructions are executed in user mode (CPL > 0). > Attempting to execute such instructions causes a general protection > exception. > > The subset of instructions comprises: > > * SGDT - Store Global Descriptor Table > * SIDT - Store Interrupt Descriptor Table > * SLDT - Store Local Descriptor Table > * SMSW - Store Machine Status Word > * STR - Store Task Register > > This feature is also added to the list of disabled-features to allow > a cleaner handling of build-time configuration. > > Cc: Andy Lutomirski > Cc: Andrew Morton > Cc: H. Peter Anvin > Cc: Borislav Petkov > Cc: Brian Gerst > Cc: Chen Yucong > Cc: Chris Metcalf > Cc: Dave Hansen > Cc: Fenghua Yu > Cc: Huang Rui > Cc: Jiri Slaby > Cc: Jonathan Corbet > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin > Cc: Paul Gortmaker > Cc: Peter Zijlstra > Cc: Ravi V. Shankar > Cc: Shuah Khan > Cc: Vlastimil Babka > Cc: Tony Luck > Cc: Paolo Bonzini > Cc: Liang Z. Li > Cc: Alexandre Julliard > Cc: Stas Sergeev > Cc: x86@kernel.org > Cc: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org > > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri > --- > arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 + > arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h | 8 +++++++- > arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/processor-flags.h | 2 ++ > 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) --