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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/mpx, selftests: Only check bounds-vs-shadow when we keep shadow
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On 04/06/2017 07:23 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
>
> The check between the hardware state and our shadow of it is
> checked in the signal handler for all bounds exceptions,
> even for the ones where we don't keep the shadow up2date.
> This is a problem because when no shadow is kept the handler
> fails at this point and hides the real reason of the
> exception.
>
> Move the check into the code-path evaluating normal bounds
> exceptions to prevent this.

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>

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