linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/vdso] x86/vdso32/syscall.S: Do not load __USER32

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Message-ID: <5538BA21.7000609@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:23:45 +0200
From:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
CC:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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	<linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/vdso] x86/vdso32/syscall.S: Do not load __USER32_DS
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On 04/23/2015 10:49 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Would fixing this be as simple as changing this code in
> arch/x86/kernel/process.c:
> 
> __visible DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tss_struct, cpu_tss) = {
>         .x86_tss = {
>                 .sp0 = TOP_OF_INIT_STACK,
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
>                 .ss0 = __KERNEL_DS,
> 
> by moving the ifdef down a line?

You can't do that. 64-bit TSS has no .ss0/1/2 fields :)
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