From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, Fix broken LDT access in VMI
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:13:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080930191356.GA28057@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222797732.7330.35.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com>
* Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> wrote:
> This one took a long time to rear up because LDT usage is not very
> common, but the bug is quite serious. It got introduced along with
> another bug, already fixed, by 75b8bb3e56ca09a467fbbe5229bc68627f7445be
>
> Please apply. Fix should also be headed for stable tree and backported,
> it is really sadly trivial. Glauber, Ingo, sorry for the offlist
> posting, somehow the original missed LKML.
> - vmi_ops.write_idt_entry(dt, entry, ldt_entry[0], ldt_entry[1]);
> + vmi_ops.write_ldt_entry(dt, entry, ldt_entry[0], ldt_entry[1]);
oops. Applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Zachary!
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-30 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-30 18:02 [PATCH] x86, Fix broken LDT access in VMI Zachary Amsden
2008-09-30 19:13 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-09-30 22:49 ` Parag Warudkar
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