linux-kernel - RE: [RFC PATCH 00/16] PTI support for x86-32

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jan 2018 09:55:31 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Nadav Amit' <nadav.amit@...il.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
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Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 00/16] PTI support for x86-32

From: Nadav Amit
> Sent: 21 January 2018 23:46
> 
> I wanted to see whether segments protection can be a replacement for PTI
> (yes, excluding SMEP emulation), or whether speculative execution “ignores”
> limit checks, similarly to the way paging protection is skipped.

That's made me remember something about segment limits applying in 64bit mode.
I really can't remember the details at all.
I'm sure it had something to do with one of the VM implementations restricting
memory accesses.

	David