x86/smep: Be more informative when signalling an SMEP fault
If pagefault triggers due to SMEP triggering, it can't be really easily distinguished from any other oops-causing pagefault, which might lead to quite some confusion when trying to understand the reason for the oops. Print an explanatory message in case the fault happened during instruction fetch for _PAGE_USER page which is present and executable on SMEP-enabled CPUs. This is consistent with what we are doing for NX already; in addition to immediately seeing from the oops what might be happening, it can even easily give a good indication to sysadmins who are carefully monitoring their kernel logs that someone might be trying to pwn them. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1406102248490.1321@pobox.suse.czSigned-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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