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author | Ricardo Neri <[email protected]> | 2017-11-20 19:04:36 -0800 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2017-11-21 08:13:43 +0100 |
commit | fd11a6496e12848d4eeb21029c2c288bbc638048 (patch) | |
tree | 51215487b69dc90c4e479ba56240d4a245604152 /tools/perf/scripts/python/bin/export-to-postgresql-report | |
parent | b4c0a7326f5dc0ef7a64128b0ae7d081f4b2cbd1 (diff) |
x86/umip: Print a warning into the syslog if UMIP-protected instructions are used
Print a rate-limited warning when a user-space program attempts to execute
any of the instructions that UMIP protects (i.e., SGDT, SIDT, SLDT, STR
and SMSW).
This is useful, because when CONFIG_X86_INTEL_UMIP=y is selected and
supported by the hardware, user space programs that try to execute such
instructions will receive a SIGSEGV signal that they might not expect.
In the specific cases for which emulation is provided (instructions SGDT,
SIDT and SMSW in protected and virtual-8086 modes), no signal is
generated. However, a warning is helpful to encourage updates in such
programs to avoid the use of such instructions.
Warnings are printed via a customized printk() function that also provides
information about the program that attempted to use the affected
instructions.
Utility macros are defined to wrap umip_printk() for the error and warning
kernel log levels.
While here, replace an existing call to the generic rate-limited pr_err()
with the new umip_pr_err().
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1511233476-17088-1-git-send-email-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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