akpm@osdl.org wrote:
> The patch titled
>
>      i386: fix get_segment_eip() with vm86 segments
>
> has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>
>      i386-fix-get_segment_eip-with-vm86.patch
>
> See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
> out what to do about this
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: i386: fix get_segment_eip() with vm86 segments
> From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
>
>
> We need to check for vm86 mode first before looking at selector privilege
> bits.
>
> Segment limit is always base + 64k and only the low 16 bits of EIP are
> significant in vm86 mode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
> Cc: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> ---
>
>  arch/i386/mm/fault.c |   11 +++++++----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff -puN arch/i386/mm/fault.c~i386-fix-get_segment_eip-with-vm86 arch/i386/mm/fault.c
> --- devel/arch/i386/mm/fault.c~i386-fix-get_segment_eip-with-vm86	2006-05-29 20:06:19.000000000 -0700
> +++ devel-akpm/arch/i386/mm/fault.c	2006-05-29 20:06:19.000000000 -0700
> @@ -77,12 +77,15 @@ static inline unsigned long get_segment_
>  	unsigned seg = regs->xcs & 0xffff;
>  	u32 seg_ar, seg_limit, base, *desc;
>  
> +	/* Unlikely, but must come before segment checks. */
> +	if (unlikely(regs->eflags & VM_MASK)) {
> +		base = seg << 4;
> +		*eip_limit = base + 0xffff;
> +		return base + (eip & 0xffff);
> +	}
> +
>  	/* The standard kernel/user address space limit. */
>  	*eip_limit = (seg & 3) ? USER_DS.seg : KERNEL_DS.seg;
> -
> -	/* Unlikely, but must come before segment checks. */
> -	if (unlikely((regs->eflags & VM_MASK) != 0))
> -		return eip + (seg << 4);
>  	
>  	/* By far the most common cases. */
>  	if (likely(seg == __USER_CS || seg == __KERNEL_CS))
> _
>
> Patches currently in -mm which might be from 76306.1226@compuserve.com are
>
> i386-let-usermode-execute-the-enter.patch
> i386-fix-get_segment_eip-with-vm86.patch
>
>   

This looks great.  While we're in the spirit let's fix kprobes v8086 
handling as well by filtering out int3s from v8086 mode.