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From:   Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
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Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] a couple of userspace MSR filtering improvements
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As discussed in Message-ID <20200714165621.GA3622@nazgul.tnic>.

We all agree that userspace MSR twiddling is non-ideal, but we should be
a bit cautious of taking up too much kmsg buffer if applications do
repeated writes. `allow_writes=1` is possible, but is non-ideal (see
patch 1 changelog).

Also added pid information to the message, since it makes identification
of the source (more or less) unambiguous.

Changes in v2:

- Fixed mostly aesthetic suggestions from Boris. Thanks! :-)

Chris Down (2):
  x86: Prevent userspace MSR access from dominating the console
  x86: Make source of unrecognised MSR writes unambiguous

 arch/x86/kernel/msr.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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2.28.0