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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>,
	David Manouchehri <david.manouchehri@riseup.net>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: Allow PKRU to be (once again) written by ptrace.
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 19:33:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <899e4d3d-e086-71a5-38f9-17e85ce11ea4@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yuqvkufu7Hu4drL6@gmail.com>

On 8/3/22 19:25, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Ok - allowing ptrace to set the full 32 bits of the PKRU register seems OK
> then, and is 100% equivalent to using WRPKRU, right? So there's no implicit
> masking/clearing of bits depending on how many keys are available, or other
> details where WRPKRU might differ from a pure 32-bit per thread write,
> correct?

Yes, it's the same.

Paolo


  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-03 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-31  5:03 [PATCH] x86/fpu: Allow PKRU to be (once again) written by ptrace Kyle Huey
2022-08-03  9:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2022-08-03 15:12   ` Kyle Huey
2022-08-03 17:25     ` Ingo Molnar
2022-08-03 17:33       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2022-08-03 17:35       ` Kyle Huey

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