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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [discuss] [PATCH] x86-64: remove unprotected iret
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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