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From: Matt Mullins <mmullins@mmlx.us>
Subject: Re: [RFC] KVM: SVM: ignore type when setting segment registers
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 11:03:59 -0700
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On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 02:54:21PM +0200, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> 2017-05-29 15:24+0200, Gioh Kim:
> > If so, why type is checked when setting segment registers?
> 
> No idea.  19bca6ab75d8 ("KVM: SVM: Fix cross vendor migration issue with
> unusable bit") also moved the assigment up to initialize it before use
> and I think that is enough.

Was this perhaps intended to instead check for a zero selector, which is also
an unusable segment?