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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/umip.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/umip.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c b/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c index 548fefed71ee..4d732a444711 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ /* - * umip.c Emulation for instruction protected by the Intel User-Mode - * Instruction Prevention feature + * umip.c Emulation for instruction protected by the User-Mode Instruction + * Prevention feature * * Copyright (c) 2017, Intel Corporation. * Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> @@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ /** DOC: Emulation for User-Mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP) * - * The feature User-Mode Instruction Prevention present in recent Intel - * processor prevents a group of instructions (SGDT, SIDT, SLDT, SMSW and STR) - * from being executed with CPL > 0. Otherwise, a general protection fault is - * issued. + * User-Mode Instruction Prevention is a security feature present in recent + * x86 processors that, when enabled, prevents a group of instructions (SGDT, + * SIDT, SLDT, SMSW and STR) from being run in user mode by issuing a general + * protection fault if the instruction is executed with CPL > 0. * * Rather than relaying to the user space the general protection fault caused by * the UMIP-protected instructions (in the form of a SIGSEGV signal), it can be @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ const char * const umip_insns[5] = { #define umip_pr_err(regs, fmt, ...) \ umip_printk(regs, KERN_ERR, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__) -#define umip_pr_warning(regs, fmt, ...) \ +#define umip_pr_warn(regs, fmt, ...) \ umip_printk(regs, KERN_WARNING, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__) /** @@ -380,14 +380,14 @@ bool fixup_umip_exception(struct pt_regs *regs) if (umip_inst < 0) return false; - umip_pr_warning(regs, "%s instruction cannot be used by applications.\n", + umip_pr_warn(regs, "%s instruction cannot be used by applications.\n", umip_insns[umip_inst]); /* Do not emulate (spoof) SLDT or STR. */ if (umip_inst == UMIP_INST_STR || umip_inst == UMIP_INST_SLDT) return false; - umip_pr_warning(regs, "For now, expensive software emulation returns the result.\n"); + umip_pr_warn(regs, "For now, expensive software emulation returns the result.\n"); if (emulate_umip_insn(&insn, umip_inst, dummy_data, &dummy_data_size, user_64bit_mode(regs))) |