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From: peterz@infradead.org
To: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/special_insn: reverse __force_order logic
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 14:54:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200902125402.GG1362448@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200901161857.566142-1-namit@vmware.com>

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 09:18:57AM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote:

> Unless I misunderstand the logic, __force_order should also be used by
> rdpkru() and wrpkru() which do not have dependency on __force_order. I
> also did not understand why native_write_cr0() has R/W dependency on
> __force_order, and why native_write_cr4() no longer has any dependency
> on __force_order.

There was a fairly large thread about this thing here:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527135329.1172644-1-arnd@arndb.de

I didn't keep up, but I think the general concensus was that it's
indeed a bit naf.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-02 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-01 16:18 [PATCH] x86/special_insn: reverse __force_order logic Nadav Amit
2020-09-02 12:45 ` hpa
2020-09-02 12:54 ` peterz [this message]
2020-09-02 15:32   ` Nadav Amit
2020-09-02 16:56     ` peterz
2020-09-02 16:58       ` Nadav Amit

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