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Re: [patch 11/16] x86/ldt: Force access bit for CS/SS

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Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

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the IRET to userspace.
Ok, so the other patch made me nervous, this just makes me go "Hell no!". This is exactly the kind of "now we get traps in random microcode places that have never been tested" kind of thing that I was talking about.
about.
Why is the iret exception unrecoverable anyway? Linus
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