lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2008]   [Sep]   [30]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86, Fix broken LDT access in VMI

* Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> wrote:

> This one took a long time to rear up because LDT usage is not very
> common, but the bug is quite serious. It got introduced along with
> another bug, already fixed, by 75b8bb3e56ca09a467fbbe5229bc68627f7445be
>
> Please apply. Fix should also be headed for stable tree and backported,
> it is really sadly trivial. Glauber, Ingo, sorry for the offlist
> posting, somehow the original missed LKML.

> - vmi_ops.write_idt_entry(dt, entry, ldt_entry[0], ldt_entry[1]);
> + vmi_ops.write_ldt_entry(dt, entry, ldt_entry[0], ldt_entry[1]);

oops. Applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Zachary!

Ingo


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2008-09-30 21:17    [W:0.032 / U:0.676 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site