linux/arch
H. Peter Anvin b2cc2a074d x86, smep, smap: Make the switching functions one-way
There is no fundamental reason why we should switch SMEP and SMAP on
during early cpu initialization just to switch them off again.  Now
with %eflags and %cr4 forced to be initialized to a clean state, we
only need the one-way enable.  Also, make the functions inline to make
them (somewhat) harder to abuse.

This does mean that SMEP and SMAP do not get initialized anywhere near
as early.  Even using early_param() instead of __setup() doesn't give
us control early enough to do this during the early cpu initialization
phase.  This seems reasonable to me, because SMEP and SMAP should not
matter until we have userspace to protect ourselves from, but it does
potentially make it possible for a bug involving a "leak of
permissions to userspace" to get uncaught.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-09-27 09:52:38 -07:00
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alpha alpha: Fix fall-out from disintegrating asm/system.h 2012-08-19 08:41:19 -07:00
arm arm-soc fixes for v3.6-rc3 2012-08-25 17:33:33 -07:00
avr32 ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
blackfin Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k 2012-08-03 10:52:41 -07:00
c6x Enable atomic64 ops in C6X 2012-08-17 08:10:12 -07:00
cris ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
frv Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-07-30 17:25:34 -07:00
h8300 ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
hexagon Merge branch 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2012-07-30 11:24:53 -07:00
ia64 [IA64] defconfig: Remove CONFIG_MISC_DEVICES 2012-08-20 13:04:29 -07:00
m32r ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
m68k m68k: select CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64 for all m68k CPU types 2012-08-17 10:04:24 +10:00
microblaze Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k 2012-08-03 10:52:41 -07:00
mips MIPS: pci-ar724x: avoid data bus error due to a missing PCIe module 2012-08-23 15:44:47 +02:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-07-30 17:25:34 -07:00
openrisc
parisc [PARISC] fix personality flag check in copy_thread() 2012-08-03 11:25:12 +01:00
powerpc Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2012-08-25 17:30:18 -07:00
s390 s390/32: Don't clobber personality flags on exec 2012-08-30 16:28:07 +02:00
score
sh Merge branches 'sh/urgent' and 'sh/gpiolib' into sh-latest 2012-08-09 13:21:13 +09:00
sparc sparc64: Be less verbose during vmemmap population. 2012-08-15 00:37:29 -07:00
tile memcg: rename config variables 2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus-3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2012-08-01 16:45:02 -07:00
unicore32 PCI changes for the 3.6 merge window: 2012-07-24 16:17:07 -07:00
x86 x86, smep, smap: Make the switching functions one-way 2012-09-27 09:52:38 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: select generic atomic64_t support 2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION 2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00