On 09/21/2012 02:09 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:03 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> A while ago I also did a mockup patch which switched %cr3 to
>> swapper_pg_dir while entering the kernel (basically where the CLAC
>> instructions go, plus the SYSCALL path; a restore was obviously needed,
>> too.) The performance was atrocious, but I didn't remember running into
>> any problems.
>
> Well, they are bound to be corner-cases and unusual. I was thinking of
> problems like the one recently fixed in commit ed6fe9d614fc ("Fix
> order of arguments to compat_put_time[spec|val]"), which really
> requires compat handling of fairly unusual cases.
>
> That's the kind of situation where I'd expect bugs might still lurk.
> And it would only get triggered by some rather unusual setups.
>
Yes; in *most* cases these are exploitable security bugs on non-SMAP
hardware (which is obviously the whole point!), but there are a few
conditions where there may be issues that aren't exploitable problems.
-hpa
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