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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Kenneth R. Crudup" <kenny@panix.com>,
	Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>,
	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
	Doug Covelli <dcovelli@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/split_lock: Disable SLD if an unaware (out-of-tree) module enables VMX
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 10:10:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200406171058.GA5352@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200406160157.GS20730@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 06:01:57PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Please feel free to use my pgprot_nx() and apply liberally on any
> exported function.
> 
> But crucially, I don't think any of the still exported functions allows
> getting memory in the text range, and if you want to run code outside of
> the text range, things become _much_ harder. That said, modules
> shouldn't be able to create executable code, full-stop (IMO).

This is what i've got for now:

http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/sanitize-vmalloc-api

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-06 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-03 16:30 [RFC PATCH] x86/split_lock: Disable SLD if an unaware (out-of-tree) module enables VMX Sean Christopherson
2020-04-03 16:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-03 17:20   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-04-06 12:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-06 14:04   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-06 14:34     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-06 15:24     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-06 15:39       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-06 16:01         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-06 17:10           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-04-06 18:39             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-06 22:54             ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-04-08  9:12             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-08 11:02               ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-06 21:37   ` Thomas Gleixner

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