From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 24/26] x86: Enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:57:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170727135709.GD28553@nazgul.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1501029848.22603.59.camel@ranerica-desktop>
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 05:44:08PM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 18:10 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 11:17:22AM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> > > User_mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP) is enabled by setting/clearing a
> > > bit in %cr4.
> > >
> > > It makes sense to enable UMIP at some point while booting, before user
> > > spaces come up. Like SMAP and SMEP, is not critical to have it enabled
> > > very early during boot. This is because UMIP is relevant only when there is
> > > a userspace to be protected from. Given the similarities in relevance, it
> > > makes sense to enable UMIP along with SMAP and SMEP.
> > >
> > > UMIP is enabled by default. It can be disabled by adding clearcpuid=514
> > > to the kernel parameters.
...
> So would this become a y when more machines have UMIP?
I guess. Stuff which proves reliable and widespread gets automatically
enabled with time, in most cases. IMHO, of course.
> Why would static_cpu_has() reply wrong if alternatives are not in place?
> Because it uses the boot CPU data? When it calls _static_cpu_has() it
> would do something equivalent to
Nevermind - I forgot that static_cpu_has() now drops to dynamic check
before alternatives application.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-27 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-05 18:16 [PATCH v7 00/26] x86: Enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:16 ` [PATCH v7 01/26] ptrace,x86: Make user_64bit_mode() available to 32-bit builds Ricardo Neri
2017-05-21 14:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 02/26] x86/mm: Relocate page fault error codes to traps.h Ricardo Neri
2017-05-21 14:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-05-27 3:40 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-05-27 10:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-01 3:09 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 03/26] x86/mpx: Use signed variables to compute effective addresses Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 04/26] x86/mpx: Do not use SIB.index if its value is 100b and ModRM.mod is not 11b Ricardo Neri
2017-05-24 13:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-05-27 3:36 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 05/26] x86/mpx: Do not use SIB.base if its value is 101b and ModRM.mod = 0 Ricardo Neri
2017-05-29 13:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-06 6:08 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 06/26] x86/mpx, x86/insn: Relocate insn util functions to a new insn-eval file Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 07/26] x86/insn-eval: Do not BUG on invalid register type Ricardo Neri
2017-05-29 16:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-06 6:06 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-06-06 11:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-07 0:28 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-06-07 12:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 08/26] x86/insn-eval: Add a utility function to get register offsets Ricardo Neri
2017-05-29 17:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-06 6:02 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 09/26] x86/insn-eval: Add utility function to identify string instructions Ricardo Neri
2017-05-29 21:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-06 6:01 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-06-06 12:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 10/26] x86/insn-eval: Add utility functions to get segment selector Ricardo Neri
2017-05-30 10:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-15 18:37 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-06-15 19:04 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-06-19 15:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-19 15:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 11/26] x86/insn-eval: Add utility function to get segment descriptor Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 12/26] x86/insn-eval: Add utility functions to get segment descriptor base address and limit Ricardo Neri
2017-05-31 16:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-03 17:23 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 13/26] x86/insn-eval: Add function to get default params of code segment Ricardo Neri
2017-06-07 12:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-15 19:24 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-06-19 17:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 14/26] x86/insn-eval: Indicate a 32-bit displacement if ModRM.mod is 0 and ModRM.rm is 5 Ricardo Neri
2017-06-07 13:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-15 19:36 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 15/26] x86/insn-eval: Incorporate segment base and limit in linear address computation Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 16/26] x86/insn-eval: Support both signed 32-bit and 64-bit effective addresses Ricardo Neri
2017-06-07 15:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-25 23:48 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-07-27 13:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-28 2:04 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-07-28 6:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-07 15:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-15 19:58 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 17/26] x86/insn-eval: Handle 32-bit address encodings in virtual-8086 mode Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 18/26] x86/insn-eval: Add support to resolve 16-bit addressing encodings Ricardo Neri
2017-06-07 16:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-15 21:50 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 19/26] x86/insn-eval: Add wrapper function for 16-bit and 32-bit address encodings Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 20/26] x86/cpufeature: Add User-Mode Instruction Prevention definitions Ricardo Neri
2017-05-06 9:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-11 3:23 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-06-07 18:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 21/26] x86: Add emulation code for UMIP instructions Ricardo Neri
2017-06-08 18:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-06-17 1:34 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 22/26] x86/umip: Force a page fault when unable to copy emulated result to user Ricardo Neri
2017-06-09 11:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-25 23:50 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 23/26] x86/traps: Fixup general protection faults caused by UMIP Ricardo Neri
2017-06-09 13:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-25 23:51 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 24/26] x86: Enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention Ricardo Neri
2017-06-09 16:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-07-26 0:44 ` Ricardo Neri
2017-07-27 13:57 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 25/26] selftests/x86: Add tests for " Ricardo Neri
2017-05-05 18:17 ` [PATCH v7 26/26] selftests/x86: Add tests for instruction str and sldt Ricardo Neri
2017-05-17 18:42 ` [PATCH v7 00/26] x86: Enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention Ricardo Neri
2017-05-27 3:49 ` Neri, Ricardo
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