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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 13:53:02 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 01/15] x86/cpu: Enumerate the LASS feature bits
On 10/7/2025 1:38 PM, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
>> One could argue that the LASS hardware enforcement of the kernel data
>> accesses *depends* on SMAP being enabled.
>
> The fetch part doesn't though?
That's right. The instruction fetches could have depended on SMEP but
the spec explicitly calls out that it does not.
"A supervisor-mode instruction fetch causes a LASS violation if it would
accesses a linear address of which bit 63 is 0. (Unlike paging, this
behavior of LASS applies regardless of the setting of CR4.SMEP.)"
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