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The comment is ancient, it dates to the time when only AMD's x86_64 implementation existed. AMD wasn't (and still isn't) supporting SYSENTER, so these writes were "just in case" back then. This has changed: Intel's x86_64 appeared, and Intel does support SYSENTER in long mode. "Some future 64-bit CPU" is here already. The code may appear "buggy" for AMD as it stands, since MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP is only 32-bit for AMD CPUs. Writing a kernel function's address to it would drop high bits. Subsequent use of this MSR for branch via SYSENTER seem to allow user to transition to CPL0 while executing his code. Scary, eh? Explain why that is not a bug: because SYSENTER insn would not work on AMD CPU. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427453956-21931-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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