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Commit 12aaa085 authored by Zachary Amsden's avatar Zachary Amsden Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] i386 / desc_empty macro is incorrect



Chuck Ebbert noticed that the desc_empty macro is incorrect.  Fix it.

Thankfully, this is not used as a security check, but it can falsely
overwrite TLS segments with carefully chosen base / limits.  I do not
believe this is an issue in practice, but it is a kernel bug.

Signed-off-by: default avatarZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>

[ x86-64 had the same problem, and the same fix. Linus ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 5153f7e6
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