[PATCH v4 04/23] x86/mm: Save DRs when loading a temporary mm

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Thu Apr 25 16:36:50 UTC 2019


> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/23] x86/mm: Save DRs when loading a temporary mm

s/DRs/debug registers/

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 11:57:46AM -0700, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
> From: Nadav Amit <namit at vmware.com>
> 
> Prevent user watchpoints from mistakenly firing while the temporary mm
> is being used. As the addresses that of the temporary mm might overlap

s/that //

> those of the user-process, this is necessary to prevent wrong signals
> or worse things from happening.
> 
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit at vmware.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe at intel.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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