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Re: [PATCH] x86/entry: Clarify the RF saving/restoring situation with SYSCALL/SYSRET

From Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] x86/entry: Clarify the RF saving/restoring situation with SYSCALL/SYSRET
Date 2016-08-03 20:10 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 10:24:18AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> AFAICT the AMD people didn't think of any use cases involving doing
> anything interesting between SYSCALL and SYSRET.  Witness the
> sysret_ss_attrs goof, for example: apparently SYSCALL; context switch;
> IRET; interrupt; context switch; SYSRET didn't occur to AMD as a valid
> use case.

/me hands Andy a time machine to go fix this properly, before so much
silicon ships.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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[PATCH] x86/entry: Clarify the RF saving/restoring situation with SYSCALL/SYSRET Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-08-03 12:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86/entry: Clarify the RF saving/restoring situation with SYSCALL/SYSRET Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-08-03 18:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86/entry: Clarify the RF saving/restoring situation  with SYSCALL/SYSRET Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-08-03 19:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] x86/entry: Clarify the RF saving/restoring situation with SYSCALL/SYSRET Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-08-03 19:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] x86/entry: Clarify the RF saving/restoring situation  with SYSCALL/SYSRET Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-08-03 20:10 +0200
      [tip:x86/urgent] x86/entry: Clarify the RF saving/restoring  situation with SYSCALL/SYSRET tip-bot for Borislav Petkov <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-08-10 22:50 +0200

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