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    SubjectRe: [tip:x86/vdso] x86/vdso32/syscall.S: Do not load __USER32_DS to %ss
    On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:20:56AM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
    > * what if %ss before syscall was NOT the usual value of 0x2b, but some
    > other segment, not the typical 0-base, 0xffffffff limit 32-bit expand-up one?
    > Not restoring proper %ss would not go well.
    > [but then, Intel CPUs work, and old code worked....]

    Have we run the exact same reproducer on Intel already?

    Brian, can you run the same thing on an Intel box, if you haven't done
    so already?

    Thanks.

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