Re: [PATCH v19 06/25] x86/cet: Add control-protection fault handler

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 10:00:21AM -0800, Yu, Yu-cheng wrote:
> The ratelimit here is only for #CP, and its rate is not counted together
> with other types of faults.  If a task gets here, it will exit.  The only
> condition the ratelimit will trigger is when multiple tasks hit #CP at once,
> which is unlikely.  Are you suggesting that we do not need the ratelimit
> here?

I'm trying to first find out why is it there.

Is this something you've hit during testing and thought, oh well, this
needs a ratelimit or was it added just because?

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