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Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 18:22:37 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 10/29] x86/insn-eval: Do not BUG on invalid register
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:54:13PM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> We are not in a critical failure path. The invalid register type is caused
> when trying to decode invalid instruction bytes from a user-space program.
> Thus, simply print an error message. To prevent this warning from being
> abused from user space programs, use the rate-limited variant of pr_err().
> along with a descriptive prefix.
> 
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
> Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

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