Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:22:55 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86/cpufeature: Add User-Mode Instruction Prevention definitions |
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 08:08:07PM -0800, Ricardo Neri wrote: > UMIP is enabled by setting a bit in CR4. If that bit is not supposed > to be set, that could cause a #GP fault.
Yeah, you do check CPUID first, AFAICT, so you should be ok...
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