From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: discuss@x86-64.org
Cc: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] [PATCH] x86-64: remove unprotected iret
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:38:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511100438.06555.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4370C333.76F0.0078.0@novell.com>
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 15:24, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Make sure no iret can fault without attached recovery code.
The reason it was done this way was that normally iret can only go
bad after ptrace and ptrace is handled in the careful path.
But I agree it's safer.
Your patch series looks good. I will try to merge it later
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-10 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-08 13:02 [PATCH] x86-64: separate unwind info generation from CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 14:21 ` [PATCH] x86-64: fix bound check IDT gate Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 14:22 ` [PATCH] x86-64: remove dead die_if_kernel() Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 14:23 ` [PATCH] x86-64: make trap information available to die notification handlers Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 14:23 ` [PATCH] x86-64: adjust double fault handling Jan Beulich
2005-11-08 14:24 ` [PATCH] x86-64: remove unprotected iret Jan Beulich
2005-11-10 3:38 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-11-08 14:25 ` [PATCH] x86-64: adjust page fault handling Jan Beulich
2005-11-09 16:10 ` [PATCH] x86-64: adjust ia32entry.S Jan Beulich
2005-11-11 15:34 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-11 15:50 ` Jan Beulich
2005-11-11 15:53 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
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