From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933017AbbLRQ5O (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:57:14 -0500 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:65247 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932264AbbLRQ5N (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:57:13 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.20,447,1444719600"; d="scan'208";a="844155096" Subject: Re: Rethinking sigcontext's xfeatures slightly for PKRU's benefit? To: Andy Lutomirski , "H. Peter Anvin" References: <56736BD1.5080700@linux.intel.com> <5673750B.606@linux.intel.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Brian Gerst , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: <56743AD3.2070108@linux.intel.com> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 08:56:51 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/18/2015 08:04 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Which reminds me: __get_user, etc all respect PKRU because the SDM > says that PKRU affects all user *and* kernel accesses to user memory > (i.e. anything with _PAGE_USER). Should get_user_pages also respect > PKRU? It does. There are a couple of parts to it, but the most important are in these patches: > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-pkeys.git/commit/?h=pkeys-v018&id=c64acbe036487d07968ea6a5b9090169d6e40160 > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-pkeys.git/commit/?h=pkeys-v018&id=331c62eb789f969e187964e28ac80b1e0e26b69d