From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix initialization of 'l' bit in ldt descriptors
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:28:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080728122806.GD5515@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488C9768.8090000@goop.org>
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> Make sure that fill_ldt() initializes the 'l' bit in the descriptor.
> It always sets it to 0, ignoring 'lm' in user_desc, preserving
> original x86_64 behaviour.
>
> Previously it was leaving 'l' uninitialized.
applied to tip/x86/xen. (will propagate it to x86/urgent after a bit of
testing) Thanks,
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-28 12:28 UTC|newest]
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2008-07-27 15:42 [PATCH] x86: fix initialization of 'l' bit in ldt descriptors Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-28 12:28 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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