linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] x86, kaslr: move CPU flags out of cpucheck

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Date:	Tue, 1 Oct 2013 14:09:12 -0700
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" 
	<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
	Aaron Durbin <adurbin@...gle.com>,
	Eric Northup <digitaleric@...gle.com>,
	Julien Tinnes <jln@...gle.com>, Will Drewry <wad@...gle.com>,
	Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>,
	Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] x86, kaslr: move CPU flags out of cpucheck

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:48 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 10/01/2013 12:37 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Refactor the CPU flags handling out of the cpucheck routines so that
>> they can be reused by the future ASLR routines (in order to detect CPU
>> features like RDRAND and RDTSC).
>>
>> This reworks has_eflag() and has_fpu() to be used on both 32-bit and
>> 64-bit, and refactors the calls to cpuid to make them PIC-safe on 32-bit.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>
> Please flag the ones that specifically touch the boot code so that is
> clear.  Neither the title or the description makes that at all clear,
> and at first reading is fairly confusing as a result.

Yes, good point. Patch 1/7 should be named "x86, boot: ..."

Thanks!

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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