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| author | Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> | 2011-05-17 18:44:26 -0700 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2011-05-17 20:56:59 -0700 |
| commit | d0281a257f370b09c410e466571858b4e12869c9 (patch) | |
| tree | 87d48822fbbf0325fdd140d1bcd868ad8c230456 /Documentation | |
| parent | 724a92ee45c04cb9d82884a856b03b1e594d9de1 (diff) | |
x86, cpufeature: Add cpufeature flag for SMEP
Add support for newly documented SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Protection) CPU
feature flag.
SMEP prevents the CPU in kernel-mode to jump to an executable page
that has the user flag set in the PTE. This prevents the kernel from
executing user-space code accidentally or maliciously, so it for
example prevents kernel exploits from jumping to specially prepared
user-mode shell code.
[ hpa: added better description by Ingo Molnar ]
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1305683069-25394-2-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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