From: Dave Hansen
We want to modify the Protection Key rights inside the kernel, so
we need to change PKRU's contents. But, if we do a plain
'wrpkru', when we return to userspace we might do an XRSTOR and
wipe out the kernel's 'wrpkru'. So, we need to go after PKRU in
the xsave buffer.
We do
From: Dave Hansen
We want to modify the Protection Key rights inside the kernel, so
we need to change PKRU's contents. But, if we do a plain
'wrpkru', when we return to userspace we might do an XRSTOR and
wipe out the kernel's 'wrpkru'. So, we need to go after PKRU in
the xsave buffer.
We do
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