linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86: fix duplicated X86

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Message-ID: <20160703184418.GC1781@pd.tnic>
Date:	Sun, 3 Jul 2016 20:44:18 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86: fix duplicated X86_BUG(9) macro

On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 07:36:30AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Dunno.  ESPFIX was broken under KVM for years and no one notices.

Ah, so this really was the case already. :-\

> We could do that, too, I guess.  But the current solution is only two
> extra lines of code.  We could reorder the things so that it's in the
> middle instead of at the end, I suppose.

Yeah, sounds good. Especially if it was already broken - I missed that
fact.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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