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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 15:05:34 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] x86/mm/KASLR: Remap GDTs at fixed location
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Hmm. I bet that if we preset the accessed bits in all the segments
> then we don't need it to be writable in general.
I'm not sure that this is architecturally safe.
IIRC, we do mark the IDT read-only - but that one we started doing due
to the f00f bug, so we knew it was ok. I'm not sure you can do the
same with the GDT/LDT.
Linus
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