Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/mpx, selftests: Only check bounds-vs-shadow when we keep shadow | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:51:46 -0700 |
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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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