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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make DR*_RESERVED unsigned long
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:48:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130425144818.GA25921@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5178282D.9030902@zytor.com>

On 04/24, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> On 04/24/2013 10:07 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > DR6_RESERVED and DR_CONTROL_RESERVED are used to clear the set
> > bits in the "unsigned long" data, make them long to ensure that
> > "&~" doesn't clear the upper bits.
> >
> > do_debug() and ptrace_write_dr7() which use DR*_RESERVED look
> > safe, but probably it makes sense to cleanup anyway.
> >
> > Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
>
> Can you please put in the description if this is a manifest or
> non-manifest bug and, if manifest, what the issues are?  It greatly
> affects what we otherwise have to do to address the bug.

Sorry if it was not clear, I tried to explain in the changelog that
this is only cleanup. Yes, dr6 should have all zeroes in 32-64 so
the usage of DR6_RESERVED is safe.

> Also, the -UL suffix is usually capitalized in our codebase.

OK, iiuc otherwise you agree with this change. I'll send v2.

Oleg.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-25 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CA+55aFwpLu0qNms=hkQr43yqD0K9DgESNm91OEWKT1ZuT8MU6Q@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-23  0:23 ` Unsigned widening casts of binary "not" operations Linus Torvalds
2013-04-23  8:59   ` David Laight
2013-04-23 14:29     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-04-23 15:24       ` David Laight
2013-04-23 15:42         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-04-23 15:52           ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-23 16:05             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-04-23 17:37           ` David Miller
2013-04-23 17:52             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-04-23 17:56               ` David Miller
2013-04-23 18:21                 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-04-24 12:36             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-04-23  0:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-23 13:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-24  7:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-24  7:47   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-04-25  1:13     ` Lin Ming
2013-04-24 17:07   ` [PATCH] x86: make DR*_RESERVED unsigned long Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-24 18:45     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-25 14:48       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-04-26 16:38         ` [PATCH v2] " Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-26 16:44           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-26 17:15             ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-27 14:45               ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-27 16:20                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-28  0:58                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-04-28 17:27                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-28 17:32                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-28 17:39                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-28 17:43                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-24 22:48     ` [PATCH] " Frederic Weisbecker
2013-04-24 23:06       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-24 23:31         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-04-25  1:20           ` H. Peter Anvin

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