Re: [PATCH] x86/asm/entry/32: Restore %ss before SYSRETL if necessary

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 02:37:27PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Yes, the NULL SS is a special thing in 64-bit mode. I agree that
> context-switching it is probably the way to go; it should be cheap
> enough. We might even be able to conditionalize it on an X86_BUG_
> flag.

Oh sure, I was thinking of an AMD-specific

	"call amd_fixup_ss"

which gets NOPped out on Intel.

We do those for breakfast :-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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