On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:54:13PM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> We are not in a critical failure path. The invalid register type is caused
> when trying to decode invalid instruction bytes from a user-space program.
> Thus, simply print an error message. To prevent this warning from being
> abused from user space programs, use the rate-limited variant of pr_err().
> along with a descriptive prefix.
> 
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Adam Buchbinder <[email protected]>
> Cc: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
> Cc: Qiaowei Ren <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thomas Garnier <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <[email protected]>
> ---
>  arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>

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