Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jun 2017 20:24:22 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 20/26] x86/cpufeature: Add User-Mode Instruction Prevention definitions |
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On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 11:17:18AM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote: > User-Mode Instruction Prevention is a security feature present in new > Intel processors that, when set, prevents the execution of a subset of > instructions if such instructions are executed in user mode (CPL > 0). > Attempting to execute such instructions causes a general protection > exception. > > The subset of instructions comprises: > > * SGDT - Store Global Descriptor Table > * SIDT - Store Interrupt Descriptor Table > * SLDT - Store Local Descriptor Table > * SMSW - Store Machine Status Word > * STR - Store Task Register > > This feature is also added to the list of disabled-features to allow > a cleaner handling of build-time configuration. > > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> > Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> > Cc: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> > Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> > Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> > Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> > Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> > Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> > Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> > Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> > Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> > Cc: Liang Z. Li <liang.z.li@intel.com> > Cc: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> > Cc: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru> > Cc: x86@kernel.org > Cc: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org > > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> > --- > arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 + > arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h | 8 +++++++- > arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/processor-flags.h | 2 ++ > 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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