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Feng Wu 64df8742aa x86: enable Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) for Xen
Supervisor Mode Access Prevention (SMAP) is a new security
feature disclosed by Intel, please refer to the following
document:

http://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/319433-014.pdf

If CR4.SMAP = 1, supervisor-mode data accesses are not allowed
to linear addresses that are accessible in user mode. If CPL < 3,
SMAP protections are disabled if EFLAGS.AC = 1. If CPL = 3, SMAP
applies to all supervisor-mode data accesses (these are implicit
supervisor accesses) regardless of the value of EFLAGS.AC.

This patch enables SMAP in Xen to prevent Xen hypervisor from
accessing pv guest data, whose translation paging-structure
entries' U/S flags are all set.

Signed-off-by: Feng Wu <feng.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
2014-05-12 17:03:38 +02:00
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2005-11-28 12:20:33 +00:00

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