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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] x86/fred: Fix int80 emulation for FRED
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To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "Xin Li (Intel)" <xin@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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On 4/16/24 11:07, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 11:05:09AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> The question was if you wanted a quick fix for x86/urgent. It's pretty
>> obvious that a FRED fork of the int80 code is called for.
> 
> Yeah, I'm thinking the FRED fork would be even easier to send to Linus
> now since no existing hw will break.

Looking at the resulting code (Xin's v2 path), I would agree with you. 
The code is downright trivial.

> Btw, I presume that patch needs to have
> 
> Fixes: 55617fb991df ("x86/entry: Do not allow external 0x80 interrupts")
> 

Yes. My fault, I gave Xin incorrect information w.r.t. Fixes: tags.

	-hpa