Re: [RFC] x86_64: A real proposal for iret-less return to kernel

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed May 21 2014 - 17:54:40 EST


On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:47:03PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Is there anything actually wrong with just panicking if
> !user_mode_vm(regs)? That would make this a lot more sane.

It does that already - mce_severity().

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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