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Subject[patch 22/28] x86: Fix broken LDT access in VMI
2.6.25-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>

commit de59985e3a623d4d5d6207f1777398ca0606ab1c upstream

After investigating a JRE failure, I found this bug was introduced a
long time ago, and had already managed to survive another bugfix which
occurred on the same line. The result is a total failure of the JRE due
to LDT selectors not working properly.

This one took a long time to rear up because LDT usage is not very
common, but the bug is quite serious. It got introduced along with
another bug, already fixed, by 75b8bb3e56ca09a467fbbe5229bc68627f7445be

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ static void vmi_write_ldt_entry(struct d
const void *desc)
{
u32 *ldt_entry = (u32 *)desc;
- vmi_ops.write_idt_entry(dt, entry, ldt_entry[0], ldt_entry[1]);
+ vmi_ops.write_ldt_entry(dt, entry, ldt_entry[0], ldt_entry[1]);
}

static void vmi_load_sp0(struct tss_struct *tss,
--


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