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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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Subject: Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry: Add user_mode_ignore_vm86()
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:26 AM, tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
<tipbot@zytor.com> wrote:
> Commit-ID:  a67e7277d01ccfd39b0db5a198c2643cc19dd79c
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a67e7277d01ccfd39b0db5a198c2643cc19dd79c
> Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> AuthorDate: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:33:29 -0700
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> CommitDate: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:13:36 +0100
>
> x86/asm/entry: Add user_mode_ignore_vm86()
>
> user_mode() is dangerous and user_mode_vm() has a confusing name.
>
> Add user_mode_ignore_vm86() (equivalent to current user_mode()).
> We'll change the small number of legitimate users of user_mode()
> to user_mode_ignore_vm86().
>
> Inspired by grsec, although this works rather differently.

Ingo, does this mean that you changed your mind or do you still want a
patch to delete user_mode_ignore_vm86 and just use user_mode
everywhere instead?

--Andy