Re: [GIT pull] x86/asm for 5.1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Mar 11 2019 - 17:04:50 EST


On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 1:36 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Oh! I see what you mean -- separate the or and test.

Yeah. You'll obviously need to or in the bits at run-time then if the
test ever _fails_ and you warn about an attack and do the fixup, but
that's a separate path.

Linus