Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
no suprise here. As Ralf already noted cache barrier is a restricted
instruction, it will always cause a illegal instruction when used
in user space. Nevertheless it looks like all IP28 are affected
by the simple exploit. Flo built glibc 2.7 with LLSC war workaround
and this avoids triggering the hang.
Ah, didn't know the 'cache' instructions was kernel-mode only. Explains why it
survived then :)
How does one enable the LLSC war workaround in glibc?
--Kumba
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