Ping? Any comments regarding the patch?

Mathias

On 25.06.24 12:12, Mathias Krause wrote:
> On 20.06.24 18:34, Mathias Krause wrote:
>> attached patch makes the read-only GDT handling CET compatible
>>
>> Quoting the patch description:
>> """
>> CET enabled systems need to disable CR4.CET prior to attempting to
>> toggle CR0.WP to avoid triggering a #GP(0). This is needed in VMMR0.r0
>> for PaX's r/o GDT handling.
>>
>> Enhance the r/o GDT handling to toggle CR4.CET as well in case it's enabled.
> 
> Testing unveiled that interrupts need to be disabled around toggling
> CR4.CET to not trip up sanity checks related to Linux's per-cpu CR4 shadow.
> 
> Attached is an updated version that takes this into account and tries to
> merge interrupt flag restore with the restore_fs path.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mathias
> 
>>
>> This patch is provided under the MIT license.
>> """
>>
>> It would be nice to get it integrated not only in trunk, but all still
>> maintained release branches as well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mathias
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