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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Anish Bhatt <anish@chelsio.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Sebastian Lackner <sebastian@fds-team.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 : Ensure X86_FLAGS_NT is cleared on syscall entry
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:01:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5429BAA7.8060406@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1409292152270.22082@ionos.tec.linutronix.de>

On 09/29/2014 12:57 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>  
>> I think we should mask the bit anyway.
> 
> I tend to disagree. If we clear it there we need to consequentely
> audit ALL other possibilites and if there are any we need to clear the
> bit there as well. Just to make buggy user space happy?
> 

The entry options into the kernel are: interrupt/exception (already
known to be OK), SYSENTER32, SYSCALL32, and SYSCALL64.  It is not too
much to work through those issues, I don't think.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-29 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-25 19:42 [PATCH] x86 : Ensure X86_FLAGS_NT is cleared on syscall entry Anish Bhatt
2014-09-25 23:00 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-29 17:30   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-26 22:00 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-26 22:10   ` Anish Bhatt
2014-09-26 23:32   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-29 17:40 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-29 18:30   ` Sebastian Lackner
2014-09-29 18:43     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-29 19:33     ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-29 19:41       ` Sebastian Lackner
2014-09-29 19:51         ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-29 18:59   ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-29 19:08     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-29 19:17     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-29 19:41       ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-29 19:43         ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-29 19:57           ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-29 20:01             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-09-29 20:10               ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-29 20:29               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-29 20:16         ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-29 21:37           ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-30  0:11             ` Andy Lutomirski

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