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SubjectRe: [PATCH v13 00/16] Enable FSGSBASE instructions
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Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> writes:
> Is there a plan to deal with:
>
> /*
> * This function has some ABI oddities.
> *
> * A 32-bit ptracer probably expects that writing FS or GS will change
> * FSBASE or GSBASE respectively. In the absence of FSGSBASE support,
> * this code indeed has that effect. When FSGSBASE is added, this
> * will require a special case.
> *
> * For existing 64-bit ptracers, writing FS or GS *also* currently
> * changes the base if the selector is nonzero the next time the task
> * is run. This behavior may? not be needed, and trying to preserve it
> * when FSGSBASE is added would be complicated at best.
> */
>
> in arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c?

Not that I'm aware of.

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