Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:41:08 -0800 | From | Dave Hansen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] x86, mpx: Support 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels |
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On 12/12/2014 12:48 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> wrote: >> You want the same size structures with the same format for 32-bit and >> 64-bit modes? > > Yes. Especially because programs can switch between 32-bit and 64-bit > mode entirely in userspace. I don't know whether any do in practice, > but programs *can*.
So, you want a 2GB of the 32-bit address space dedicated to a bounds directory, and half of the space for the bounds tables to be simply zero-filled unused address bits? That seems, um, a bit unreasonable.
> Or better yet: Intel could have skipped supporting it at all in 32-bit > mode.
So, we should not have this security feature for 32-bit apps... because it costs us 50 lines of code in the kernel to support? Did you look at the diffstat?
> Isn't mpx somewhat of an address space hog anyway?
Yes, it will be troublesome for 32-bit apps that are already bumping up against the virtual address space size to support it. But, really, how many of those *are* there these days?
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