[PATCH 0/2] a couple of userspace MSR filtering improvements

From: Chris Down
Date: Mon Aug 17 2020 - 15:42:24 EST


As discussed in Message-ID <20200714165621.GA3622@xxxxxxxxxxx>.

We all agree that userspace MSR twiddling is non-ideal, but we should be
a bit cautious of taking up too much kmsg buffer if applications do
repeated writes. `allow_writes=1` is possible, but is non-ideal (see
patch 1 changelog).

Also added pid information to the message, since it makes identification
of the source (more or less) unambiguous.

Chris Down (2):
x86: Prevent userspace MSR access from dominating the console
x86: Make source of unrecognised MSR writes unambiguous

arch/x86/kernel/msr.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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