Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86: kaslr: move CPU flags out of cpucheck

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Apr 26 2013 - 11:28:56 EST


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:00 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/25/2013 02:54 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Since has_eflag() and has_fpu() are 32-bit only, short-circuit the
>> routines on 64-bit when they are built without -m32. This also refactors
>> the calls to cpuid to make them PIC-safe on 32-bit.
>
> These functions can trivially be made 32- and 64-bit agnostic by
> changing "u32" to "unsigned long" and drop the -l suffixes in the
> assembly code.

Ah, good call. I found what was stopping me earlier. The u32 argument
needed to be switched to unsigned long too. Duh. :)

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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