linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/15] x86: Add int3_emulate

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Date:   Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:57:58 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Julia Cartwright <julia@...com>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/15] x86: Add int3_emulate_call() selftest

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 9:53 AM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 03:08:00PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Given that the entry_*.S changes for this functionality are somewhat
> > tricky, make sure the paths are tested every boot, instead of on the
> > rare occasion when we trip an INT3 while rewriting text.
> >
> > Requested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
>
> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
>

Looks good to me, too, except that I seriously hate die notifiers that
return NOTIFY_STOP, and I eventually want to remove support for them.
This can wait, though.