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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>,
	Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/asm/entry/32: Restore %ss before SYSRETL if necessary
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:11:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150423161138.GO28327@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFybpw3TiaojBi0HeTP1VtX1ZnGYVu3EF3-iATRw6uiiCw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 09:05:07AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So it sounds very much like an AMD bug/misfeature. Because sysret
> *should* reset the descriptor cache. Do we know whether this affects
> *all* AMD CPU's or just a subset?

I am being told that this might appear to be the case with at least one
uarch. I could run code on the boxes I have here to check if Andy comes
up with some nice little "exploit".

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
--

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-23 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-23 12:34 [PATCH] x86/asm/entry/32: Restore %ss before SYSRETL if necessary Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-23 15:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-23 15:50   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-23 16:05     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-23 16:11       ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-04-23 16:06   ` Brian Gerst
2015-04-23 16:13     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-23 16:27       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-23 20:01         ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-23 21:10           ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-23 21:37             ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-23 21:46               ` Borislav Petkov
2015-04-23 22:29               ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-23 22:31                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-23 22:38                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-23 22:52                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-04-23 22:55                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-04-23 23:04                         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-23 23:22                           ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-04-24  0:59                         ` H. Peter Anvin

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