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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86_64: fix is_at_popf() for compat tasks
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:54:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607311054.38585.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607310325_MC3-1-C691-D76B@compuserve.com>

On Monday 31 July 2006 09:22, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> When testing for the REX instruction prefix, first check
> for a 32-bit task because in compat mode the REX prefix is an
> increment instruction.

is_compat_task doesn't actually say that a task is in compat mode
(it refers to the Linux compat layer, not x86-64 compat mode)

A better test would be regs->cs == __USER32_CS, but in theory
there could be other code segments in LDT. I guess that can 
be ignored though.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-31  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-31  7:22 [patch] x86_64: fix is_at_popf() for compat tasks Chuck Ebbert
2006-07-31  8:54 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-31 16:59 Chuck Ebbert
2006-07-31 20:06 ` Andi Kleen

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