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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2008-07-27 11:42:32 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-28 08:26:26 -0400
commit64f53a0492b4bc11868307990bb8f7c1e0764f89 (patch)
tree60348b0c26e945e2b91da2521af5b300979cdc04 /include/asm-x86/desc.h
parentb56afe1d41653fb07ab1b5af5ccc12001c4dd5a0 (diff)
x86: fix initialization of 'l' bit in ldt descriptors
Make sure that fill_ldt() initializes the 'l' bit in the descriptor. It always sets it to 0, ignoring 'lm' in user_desc, preserving original x86_64 behaviour. Previously it was leaving 'l' uninitialized. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-x86/desc.h')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86/desc.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/desc.h b/include/asm-x86/desc.h
index 24a524f5e1a2..06f786f4b4fb 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/desc.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/desc.h
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ static inline void fill_ldt(struct desc_struct *desc,
24 desc->d = info->seg_32bit; 24 desc->d = info->seg_32bit;
25 desc->g = info->limit_in_pages; 25 desc->g = info->limit_in_pages;
26 desc->base2 = (info->base_addr & 0xff000000) >> 24; 26 desc->base2 = (info->base_addr & 0xff000000) >> 24;
27 /*
28 * Don't allow setting of the lm bit. It is useless anyway
29 * because 64bit system calls require __USER_CS:
30 */
31 desc->l = 0;
27} 32}
28 33
29extern struct desc_ptr idt_descr; 34extern struct desc_ptr idt_descr;