[PATCH] x86: bogus tls from gdt

The per-CPU initialization code is copying in bogus data into
thread->tls_array.  Note that it copies &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu), not
&per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu)[GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN).  That is totally broken
and unnecessary.  Make the initialization explicitly NULL.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 9ad43be9a01f..a162c0326b4a 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -607,12 +607,6 @@ void __devinit cpu_init(void)
         cpu_gdt_descr[cpu].address =
             (unsigned long)&per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu);
 
-        /*
-         * Set up the per-thread TLS descriptor cache:
-         */
-        memcpy(thread->tls_array, &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_table, cpu),
-                GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES * 8);
-
         load_gdt(&cpu_gdt_descr[cpu]);
         load_idt(&idt_descr);