Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:40:31 -0800 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] broken ebba638ae723d8a8fc2f7abce5ec18b688b791d7 |
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 05:10:03PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 01/31/2011 03:52 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > > > >This worked, thanks! If this tests cleanly for you in qemu, we should get > >this committed. > > > > This is wrong for at least one reason; possibly two: > > a) it ignores the control to not reload the segment registers (not > sure if anything still uses them, but...) > > b) I'm not sure that init_thread_union is safe for the non-BSP CPU here.
What's the best way to move forward? Or, how can we find answers to these questions?
-Kees
-- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team
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