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authorBabu Moger <Babu.Moger@amd.com>2019-11-05 21:25:40 +0000
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2019-11-07 11:16:44 +0100
commit9774a96f785bf0fa6d956ce33300463f1704dbeb (patch)
treeea9c360eb714dcae64fab9b5222462113b924c21 /arch/x86/kernel
parentb971880fe79f4042aaaf426744a5b19521bf77b3 (diff)
x86/umip: Make the comments vendor-agnostic
AMD 2nd generation EPYC processors also support the UMIP feature. Make the comments vendor-agnostic. Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/157298913784.17462.12654728938970637305.stgit@naples-babu.amd.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/umip.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c b/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c
index 548fefed71ee..8ccef6c495dc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/umip.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/*
- * umip.c Emulation for instruction protected by the Intel User-Mode
- * Instruction Prevention feature
+ * umip.c Emulation for instruction protected by the User-Mode Instruction
+ * Prevention feature
*
* Copyright (c) 2017, Intel Corporation.
* Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@
/** DOC: Emulation for User-Mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP)
*
- * The feature User-Mode Instruction Prevention present in recent Intel
- * processor prevents a group of instructions (SGDT, SIDT, SLDT, SMSW and STR)
- * from being executed with CPL > 0. Otherwise, a general protection fault is
- * issued.
+ * User-Mode Instruction Prevention is a security feature present in recent
+ * x86 processors that, when enabled, prevents a group of instructions (SGDT,
+ * SIDT, SLDT, SMSW and STR) from being run in user mode by issuing a general
+ * protection fault if the instruction is executed with CPL > 0.
*
* Rather than relaying to the user space the general protection fault caused by
* the UMIP-protected instructions (in the form of a SIGSEGV signal), it can be