Re: [PATCH] x86/iopl: Fake iopl(3) CLI/STI usage

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 03:24:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 3:23 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I think the proper thing to do is perhaps something like
> 
> The alternative is to just ignore cs_abse entirely, and just use
> "regs->ip", which makes this all even easier.
> 
> If somebody uses a code segment _and_ cli/sti, maybe they should just
> get the SIGSEGV?

I did a hatched job on fixup_ump_exception() which is why it looks like
it does, that said...

our case at hand mmap()'s BIOS code from /dev/mem and executes that, I
don't think it does an LDT segment but it would be entirely in line with
the level of hack we're looking at.

Let me frob at this after breakfast and see if I can make it better.