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From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/pkeys: Manually set X86_FEATURE_OSPKE to preserve existing changes
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:20:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fbf2b74e-bc37-985a-11f0-03e5ae5e390c@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200227180100.GB18629@zn.tnic>



On 2/27/2020 10:01 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 04:16:13PM -0800, Jacob Keller wrote:
>> I tested this and it resolves my report! Thanks for a timely fix.
> 
> Adding your Tested-by.
> 

Yep, thanks.

>> I agree with the analysis. Perhaps it would make sense in the long term
>> to find a solution where get_cpu_cap can remember what was cleared for
>> each CPU and restore those? It already does this using the global
>> variables...
> 
> get_cpu_cap() remembers if you use setup_force_cpu_cap() but I agree
> that that whole feature bit handling is a bit, hm, "strange". It had its
> raisins.

Right. Nothing quite equivalent to that for per-CPU changes though.

> 
> FWIW, we had started cleaning those up but then the security nightmares
> happened so on the backburner it went...
> 
> Thx.
> 

Completely understandable. Especially since changes here are tricky to
get right, this being a case in point.

Thanks,
Jake

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-27 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-26 23:16 Sean Christopherson
2020-02-26 23:32 ` Dave Hansen
2020-02-26 23:40   ` Jacob Keller
2020-02-27  0:16 ` Jacob Keller
2020-02-27 18:01   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-27 18:20     ` Jacob Keller [this message]
2020-02-27 18:07 ` [tip: x86/urgent] " tip-bot2 for Sean Christopherson

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