From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753499AbYI3TOR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:14:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753148AbYI3TOI (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:14:08 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:52695 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752739AbYI3TOI (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:14:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:13:56 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Zachary Amsden Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Glauber de Oliveira Costa Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, Fix broken LDT access in VMI Message-ID: <20080930191356.GA28057@elte.hu> References: <1222797732.7330.35.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1222797732.7330.35.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Zachary Amsden 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