Re: [PATCH] x86: Don't allow stackprotector without TSC

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 04:43:03PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Presumably the actual failure is a #GP when trying to do the rdtsc. If
> so, wouldn't a better fix be to make that rdtsc check cpuid first? Can
> we easily check cpuid that early?

I don't see why not.

The real question, though is, can we have a fallback for RDTSC on those
machines so that they don't have to disable stack protector in order to
boot.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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