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Re: [PATCH] x86/ldt: correct ldt access in single stepping logic

From Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] x86/ldt: correct ldt access in single stepping logic
Date 2015-08-06 20:40 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> wrote:
> Commit 37868fe113ff ("x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous") introduced
> a new struct ldt_struct anchored at mm->context.ldt.
>
> convert_ip_to_linear() was changed to reflect this, but indexing into
> the ldt has to be changed as the pointer is no longer void *.

Good catch.

Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
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[PATCH] x86/ldt: correct ldt access in single stepping logic Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2015-08-06 10:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86/ldt: correct ldt access in single stepping logic Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-06 20:40 +0200
  [tip:x86/urgent] x86/ldt:   Correct LDT access in single stepping logic tip-bot for Juergen Gross <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2015-08-09 12:30 +0200

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