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Message-ID: <ca888ec2-e2e6-3600-3e39-c18e61e0c735@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:19:37 -0700 From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com> To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>, Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>, He Chen <he.chen@...ux.intel.com>, Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, Piotr Luc <piotr.luc@...el.com>, Kyle Huey <me@...ehuey.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: move FPU state into separate cache On 03/29/2017 02:09 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > They're adjacent already, which poses a problem for the struct layout > randomization plugin, since adjacency may no longer be true (after > layout randomization). This adjacency (or not) isn't really the > problem: it's that FPU state size is only known at runtime. Another > solution would be to have FPU state be a fixed size... We don't want that. It varies from a couple hundred bytes to ~3k on newer CPUs. We don't want to eat an extra 2.5k per task on the older processors.
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