Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/umip: Add emulation code for UMIP instructions

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 8:53 AM, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We can postpone enabling UMIP by default by a year or so.
> By this time, new Wine will be on majority of users' machines.

So you are suggesting we run unnecessarily insecure, only in order to
not do the emulation that we already have the code for and that the
patch implements?

Why?

Because quite frankly, that sounds f*cking retarded.

          Linus