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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:03:51 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 2/6] x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack
 at the end of syscalls

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Dave Hansen
<dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 04/16/2018 11:29 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Dave, Ingo, Linus: how does this look? With the assembly rewritten
>> into C, the entry changes are very small:
>
> The assembly looks very nice to me now.  It is as minimally invasive as
> it can get.  Definitely no objections from me on that part.

Can you give an Acked-by for the x86 parts? Or Ingo?

If this is workable, I'd like to carry it in -next to see if anything
else shakes out...

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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