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Re: [PATCH v6 2/4] x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous

From	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v6 2/4] x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous
Date	2015-07-31 05:20 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Andrew Cooper
<andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
> On 30/07/2015 22:31, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> Note to -stable maintainers: by itself, this patch makes a
>> pre-existing Xen bug much easier to trigger; on a 32-bit Xen guest,
>> the new ldt_gdt selftest is likely to OOPS.  Even without this
>> patch, the test can OOPS, but it's much less likely to happen.  The
>> Xen maintainers should have a fix for that issue shortly.
>
> All Xen issues should be fixed by patch 1 now.
>

Whoops, right.  That paragraph in the changelog can be deleted.

> ~Andrew



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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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Re: [PATCH v6 2/4] x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-07-31 05:20 +0200

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