Re: [PATCH v9 12/26] x86/fpu/xstate: Use feature disable (XFD) to protect dynamic user state

From: Len Brown
Date: Tue Aug 24 2021 - 18:51:55 EST


On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 2:09 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What relevance does the fact have for userspace whether the kernel
> supports XFD or not?

Right.
If user space needs to know that XFD exists, then we have done
something very wrong.

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Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center