On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If the User-Mode Instruction Prevention CPU feature is available and > enabled, a general protection fault will be issued if the instructions > sgdt, sldt, sidt, str or smsw are executed from user-mode context > (CPL > 0). If the fault was caused by any of the instructions protected > by UMIP, fixup_umip_exception will emulate dummy results for these > instructions. If emulation is successful, the result is passed to the > user space program and no SIGSEGV signal is emitted. > > Please note that fixup_umip_exception also caters for the case when > the fault originated while running in virtual-8086 mode. Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
