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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:15:08 -0700
From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
To: Wolfgang Walter <wolfgang.walter@...m.de>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: Kernel oops with 2.6.26, padlock and ipsec: probably problem with fpu state changes
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 04:10:42PM -0700, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> By the way, if padlock is used from userspace, could this be aproblem, too? I
> mean not via the kernel crypto layer but directly. I think these extensions
> are not restricted to a privileged user.
No. Userspace will not have any such issue. Kernel is special, as it
has to preserve the user-space context and also use these instructions
for its own kernel purpose.
It is ok to get a spurious DNA from userland.
thanks,
suresh
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