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| author | Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> | 2005-08-16 12:05:09 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-08-16 12:18:01 -0700 |
| commit | 12aaa0855b39b5464db953fedf399fa91ee365ed (patch) | |
| tree | d202ce6d6529fe23e950e24cd04b4d562f28705e /include/asm-x86_64/processor.h | |
| parent | 5153f7e6dba37390902c8fd3edc9a8cc19358ece (diff) | |
| download | lwn-12aaa0855b39b5464db953fedf399fa91ee365ed.tar.gz lwn-12aaa0855b39b5464db953fedf399fa91ee365ed.zip | |
[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: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
[ x86-64 had the same problem, and the same fix. Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-x86_64/processor.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-x86_64/processor.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h b/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h index 106f666517bb..85549e656eeb 100644 --- a/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h +++ b/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ #define ID_MASK 0x00200000 #define desc_empty(desc) \ - (!((desc)->a + (desc)->b)) + (!((desc)->a | (desc)->b)) #define desc_equal(desc1, desc2) \ (((desc1)->a == (desc2)->a) && ((desc1)->b == (desc2)->b)) |