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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/entry/64: Context-track syscalls before enabling interrupts
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:16:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150818221623.GA12858@lerouge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad9154dd60f669e94e60d36d23c3267b2ac4c94d.1439924771.git.luto@kernel.org>

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:11:59PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This fixes a couple minor holes if we took an IRQ very early in syscall
> processing:
> 
>  - We could enter the IRQ with CONTEXT_USER.  Everything worked (RCU
>    was fine), but we could warn if all the debugging options were
>    set.

So this is fixing issues after your changes that call user_exit() from
IRQs, right?

But the IRQs aren't supposed to call user_exit(), they have their own hooks.
That's where the real issue is.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-18 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-18 19:11 [PATCH] x86/entry/64: Context-track syscalls before enabling interrupts Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-18 22:16 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2015-08-18 22:35   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-18 23:02     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-08-18 23:07       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-19 17:10         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-08-21  7:50           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-08-21 13:14             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-08-19  0:30 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-08-19 15:54   ` Andy Lutomirski

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