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Commit 9c0080ef authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/vdso: Make the PER_CPU segment start out accessed



The first userspace attempt to read or write the PER_CPU segment
will write the accessed bit to the GDT.  This is visible to
userspace using the LAR instruction, and it also pointlessly
dirties a cache line.

Set the segment's accessed bit at boot to prevent userspace
access to segments from having side effects.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac63814ca4c637a08ec2fd0360d67ca67560a9ee.1411494540.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 25880156
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